Quotes with religion’

Quotes 301 till 320 of 348.

  • Ruth Hubbard To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Aldous Huxley To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Victor Hugo Toleration is the best religion.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Benjamin Whorf Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Albert Einstein True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Leslie Fiedler Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Victor Hugo We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Jonathan Swift We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • T. S. Eliot We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Carolyn Chute We need to stay together, to spread the truth like religion. It's a lonely, scary road, and we've got to walk it together.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Charles Kingsley We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi We respect every religion. Everyone is free to practice his religion freely... In the Tunisian parliament, we have even Jews.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Richard Dawkins We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • George Santayana Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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