Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Religion
To hate man and love god seems to be the sum of all creeds.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa "Ramakrishna Paramahamsa"
I am for religion, against religions.
-Victor Hugo
One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
-Richard Dawkins
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.
-Thomas Paine
To die for religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
-Jorge Luis Borges
How can living life to the fullest with much passion, fun and happiness or moving
towards success, ever be irreligious? Irreligiousness itself begins with renouncing
the things out of fear.
-Deep Trivedi
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
-Alan Wilson Watts
