The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper pleasure of ritual.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
-Thomas Paine
"The Age Of Reason"
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
-Robert M. Pirsig
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
What is religion? The science of mind and life. Who are Buddha, Krishna and
Christ? The doctors of our mind and life.
-Deep Trivedi
We are so interested in religion that first we put the person who has come to
awaken us to sleep. Then making him God, we establish such a religion around
him that we don't face any obstacle in perpetrating the violence, jealousy, partiality,
lies, cheating, fraud or pretence as we desire; and simultaneously adhering to
few hypocrisies, also remain proud of being religious.
-Deep Trivedi
To die for religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
-Jorge Luis Borges
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
-Karl Marx
I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn't seem to matter.
-Christopher Morley
"Inward Ho!"
