Life and Existence

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.

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

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

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

Religion is just mind control.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

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

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

God has no religion.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.