All Quotes By Tag: Religion

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”

“Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?”

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”

“Religion is like a pair of shoes…..Find one that fits for you, but don’t make me wear your shoes.”

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”

“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to.”

“I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. … These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”

“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”

“Science tells me God must exist.My mind tells me I’ll never understand God.My heart tells me I’m not meant to. [Vittoria Vetra]”

“Living in a world such as this is like dancing on a live volcano.”

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”

“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…”

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.I attack the monsters, the phantoms of imagination that have ruled the world. I attack slavery. I ask for room — room for the human mind.”