8149 | Charity and ritual observance distract from the highest good of religion [Anon (Upan)] |
1501 | In their ignorance people pray to statues, which is like talking to a house [Heraclitus] |
14527 | If god answered prayers we would be destroyed, because we pray for others to suffer [Epicurus] |
5955 | No one will ever find a city that lacks religious practices [Plutarch] |
8139 | If you love the world, then you do not love the Father [John] |
2365 | Religion is built on ignorance and misinterpretation of what is unknown or frightening [Hobbes] |
19437 | Prayers are useful, because God foresaw them in his great plan [Leibniz] |
19576 | Religion needs an intermediary, because none of us can connect directly to a godhead [Novalis] |
22782 | To have pagan beliefs and be a pagan are quite different [Hegel] |
22793 | Some religions lead to harsh servitude and the debasement of human beings [Hegel] |
21472 | Only religion introduces serious issues to uneducated people [Schopenhauer] |
4180 | Religion is the mythical clothing of the truth which is inaccessible to the crude human intellect [Schopenhauer] |
19449 | Religion is the consciousness of the infinite [Feuerbach] |
19455 | Today's atheism will tomorrow become a religion [Feuerbach] |
6905 | Absolute idealism is the realized divine mind of Leibnizian theism [Feuerbach] |
7128 | Religion is the opium of the people, and real happiness requires its abolition [Marx] |
5299 | Religious feeling is social in origin [Marx] |
4410 | The truly great haters in world history have always been priests [Nietzsche] |
14828 | Religion is tempting if your life is boring, but you can't therefore impose it on the busy people [Nietzsche] |
22877 | We should try attaching the intensity of religious devotion to intelligent social action [Dewey] |
22878 | Religions are so shockingly diverse that they have no common element [Dewey] |
23930 | Religion sees infinite value in some things, and irrelevance in the rest [Bell,C] |
23849 | Religion should quietly suffuse all human life with its light [Weil] |
19600 | When man abandons religion, he then follows new fake gods and mythologies [Cioran] |
19643 | A religion needs to motivate killings, and cannot tolerate rivals [Cioran] |
5320 | It is estimated that mankind has produced 100,000 religions [Wilson,EO] |
12317 | The God of religion results from an encounter, not from a proof [Badiou] |
6706 | The great religions are much more concerned with the religious life than with ethics [Graham] |
7819 | Religion gives answers, comforts, creates social order, and panders to superstition [Grayling] |
7463 | The three basic ingredients of religion are: the soul, seers or priests, and ritual [Watson] |