Full Idea
Religion is the only means of introducing some notion of the high significance of life into the uncultivated heads of the masses.
Gist of Idea
Only religion introduces serious issues to uneducated people
Source
Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena [1851], XV:174)
Book Reference
Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'Essays and Aphorisms [from Pand P]', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1970], p.95
A Reaction
Cf Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going'. On the whole Schopenhauer didn't actually believe that our lives had any 'high significance'.