Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Herbert

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Oscar Wilde

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

Margaret Smith

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

Evelyn Underhill

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Salman Rushdie

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

Florence Nightingale

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

Henny Youngman

I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

Cat Stevens

They have hijacked my religion.

Francis Bacon

For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

George Santayana

Fear first created the gods.

George Santayana

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

George Bernard Shaw

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

George Bernard Shaw

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

Galileo Galilei

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

Emily Saliers

The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine

George Sand

No religion can be built on force.

John Wesley

Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.

John Wesley

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

John von Neumann

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Mark Thomas

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

Mark Thomas

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.

Mark Thomas

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

Theodore Roosevelt

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Margaret Heffernan

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.