A FEW QUOTATIONS

True religion is real living: living with all one's soul. With all one's goodness and righteousness. –Albert Einstein

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?  –Edward O. Wilson

True character arises from a deeper well than religion. –Edward O. Wilson

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. –Bertrand   Russell (1872 - 1970)

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. –George Santayana (1863 – 1952)

 

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. –Eric Hoffer

 

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. –Thomas Paine

My own mind is my own church. I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. Thomas Paine, in The Age of Reason

A person may be qualified to do greater good to humankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality. –Joseph Addison

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized on this earth, capable of becoming true man, master of his fate and captain of his soul. –Jawharlal Nehru (From Edgar Snow, Journey to the Beginning [1958])

 

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. –Voltaire

Twenty times in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out: This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. –John Adams

Not only is science corrosive to religion; religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial, supernatural non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp. Religion teaches them to accept authority, revelation and faith instead of always insisting on evidence. -Richard Dawkins on militant atheism (transcript), TED talk, 2007

When religion grows in age, faith turns into dogma, and experience is replaced by book knowledge, virtue by adherence to rules, devotion by ritual, meditation by metaphysical speculation. The time is then ripe for a rediscovery of truth and a fresh attempt to give it expression in life.    –Lama Govinda

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche