Faith, Spirituality and Religion

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

When superstition goes, religion remains.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion –- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

A one sentence definition of mythology? "Mythology" is what we call someone else's religion.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.