Life and Existence

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

Religion is just mind control.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.

I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.