simplyknowledge | Quotations

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

-Napoleon Bonaparte "Napoleon Bonaparte"

In the past 50 years, what joy and happiness has been offered by the politicians and religious heads to the people of our country? And in comparison, what is it that has not been bestowed by our legendary singers like Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar or Lata - Asha... Thanks to their voices, even today people get to live a life of bliss and serenity for at least two hours a day.

-Deep Trivedi

We are quite bizarre ourselves, so are our religious heads too. Merely to satiate our pride we visit them to listen to good things about our religion and they being clever take undue advantage of it, pander to our ego and continue to prosper. This blinds us so much that we stop seeing the negativities of our religion and positive aspects of other religions. You cannot even imagine what a great loss it is for you.

-Deep Trivedi

I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.

-Philip Pullman

What is religion?
It is compassion for all things which have life.

-Hitopadesa "Hitopadesa"

The foundation of Hindu religion has been laid on the pillar of tolerance. It has revered all the rebels like Buddha, Kabira, Shankaracharya, Chanakya, Dayanand Saraswati who had opposed the prevalent hypocrisies in their times. It didn't kill them the way reformers like Jesus, Socrates or Mansoor were... Then where did this Hindu fanaticism emerge from?... Perhaps in order to make their businesses survive, it is being propagated by the Hindu religious heads.

-Deep Trivedi

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

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

Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear.

-Bertrand Russell

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

-Ray Bradbury "he October Country"