Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?
The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
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