Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Harris

It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas).

Rumi

The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.

Steve Allen

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

Thomas Carlyle

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

Stephen Jay Gould

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

Sigmund Freud

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

Sigmund Freud

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such...

Steven Weinberg

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Steven Weinberg

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

Robert Browning

Who knows most, doubts most.

Samuel Adams

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

David Miliband

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

Paul Watson

I don't have a religion, but I respect them.

Stephen Jay Gould

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.

Stephen Jay Gould

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

Stephen Jay Gould

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

Richard Dawkins

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

Richard Dawkins

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

Richard Dawkins

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Reza Aslan

Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.

Rick Warren

The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."

We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

Martin Buber

I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

Pope John Paul II

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

Philip Schaff

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

Pope Francis

If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.

Pope Benedict XVI

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd!

Victor Hugo

No religion but blasphemes a little.

Victor Hugo

I am for religion, against religions.