Religious

(47 votes)   A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(47 votes)   For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

Thomas Hobbes
1588-1679, British Philosopher

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(47 votes)   It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

Edward Hoagland
1932-, American Novelist, Essayist

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(46 votes)   A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(46 votes)   The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(46 votes)   There is no logical answer to the question ' Why be moral?'. Religions provide practical answers to the question.

B. J. Gupta

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(46 votes)   To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Dean William R. Inge
1860-1954, Dean of St Paul's, London

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(45 votes)   let nothing trouble you. Let nothing scare you.

Saint teresa

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(45 votes)   Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

Sigmund Freud
1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis

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(45 votes)   What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

John B. Gough

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(45 votes)   When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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(44 votes)   All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(44 votes)   I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(44 votes)   I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(44 votes)   Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate.

Ulysses S. Grant

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