Quotes 221 till 240 of 348.
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
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Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
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Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
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Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.
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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
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The brainwashing which has been going on for 150 years has also resulted in the replacement of intellectual activities and religion by ideologies and science....I have nothing against Marx, except that his theories do not explain what happened.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 101 -
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
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