Quotations
Religion

Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear.

-Bertrand Russell

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

-Thomas Jefferson

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



-Hitopadesa "Hitopadesa"

The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.

-Swami Vivekananda

Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive Unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness — an act of trust in the unknown.

-Alan Watts

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

-George Bernard Shaw

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 "Bhagavata Purana"

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

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

-Voltaire

Those who are ignorant of the supreme purpose of life will never be able to attain nirvana (liberation) in spite of their observance of the vratas (vows) and niyamas (rules) of religious conduct and practice of shila (celibacy) and tapas (penance).



-Scriptures "Samayasara, 153"

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