Quotations
Religion
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
- Thomas Paine
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
- Ambrose Bierce
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
- David Mitchell
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Seneca the Younger
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Perceiving her son endowed with the characteristics of Vishnu, Devaki prayed: You are the Illuminator of all psycho-physical organisms, the indefinable Reality, which the Vedas declare as the unmanifest cause… When the universe is dissolved by force of Time, the gross elements are ultimately merged in ahankara (their cause)…
- Scriptures
We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others
- Harry S. Truman
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The three most important things for a human being and his life are time, energy
and money. Religious rites rampantly exploit all three of them.
- Deep Trivedi
Other than our 'mind', what is it that we have, which we can call our own?
Everything else is gifted by nature and made usable by science. At the same
time, if you talk of joy of mind, it lies in "art". But then it is difficult to understand
that in this process, where do we feel the need for these 'so-called religions'?
- Deep Trivedi
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