Top 100 Philosophy Religion Quotes
#1. When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Irvine Welsh
#2. Art, science, philosophy, religion
each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
Edward Abbey
#3. Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
#4. To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
Ruth Hubbard
#6. What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.
Palle Oswald
#8. I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.
Karen Traviss
#10. I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy ... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
Patrick Rothfuss
#11. An orchestra of temple bells and chanting erupted suddenly like a pleasing drizzle.
Aporva Kala
#12. Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
#13. Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Alan W. Watts
#14. A religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends, myths or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values and rules with which to regulate a culture or society
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#15. A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Manly P. Hall
#16. The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.
Max Gray
#17. Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:
It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#18. Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
Orson Scott Card
#19. That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.
Robert Neelly Bellah
#20. To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
Gore Vidal
#21. Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.
Abhijit Naskar
#22. Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
Langston Hughes
#23. Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed.
In fact Angels have no religion as we know it ...
Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever
existed on Earth ...
Thomas Aquinas
#24. If terrorism has no religion then intolerance has no country either
Subhasis Das
#25. Spirituality is the ability to say - It is OK, in every circumstance.
Rajesh Nanoo
#26. [Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#27. There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.
James Runcie
#28. The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#29. Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way.
Jochen Zeitz
#30. Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
Albert Schweitzer
#31. The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society.
Sam Harris
#32. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings.
Carl Sagan
#33. Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.
Oliver Goldsmith
#34. Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#35. I think ... that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals ...
Corliss Lamont
#36. Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.
Frank Mir
#37. Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.
Frederick Lenz
#38. Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more.
Raheel Farooq
#39. Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance; kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it.
W.G. Pogson Smith
#40. The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.
Samael Aun Weor
#41. Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.
Christopher Paolini
#42. DEMONS MUST BE RELIGIOUS
Due to exorcism based on each religion's practices
Kamil Ali
#43. Priesthood, Imamhood, Pundithood often come hand in hand with tyranny.
Abhijit Naskar
#44. Whether you practice a traditional religion or a universal version of spirituality, it is necessary to keep an open mind for learning and growing.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#46. Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.
N.D. Wilson
#49. I mean, what
What if no one's watching
What if when we're dead
We are just dead
I mean, what
What if it's just us down here
What if God is just an idea
Someone put in your head
Ani DiFranco
#50. I am the bridge that connects these two ever- separated banks of human understanding.
Abhijit Naskar
#51. The call to the creative life is a call to dignity, to a life of vulnerability and adventure and the call to a life that exquisite excitement and indeed ecstasy will often visit.
John O'Donohue
#52. I love all the religions , i don't know why i borned in one.
Nikhil Yadav
#53. Once humanity discovers what's behind the mirror of all the ruling class of governments and religions there will be a new beginning of justice called Enlightenment.
Charleston Parker
#54. Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
Christian Nestell Bovee
#56. Do not make me laugh, stupid Jew." Pontius Pilate had said upon hearing Anna's explanation. "Your tribal God, Yahweh. Is a very weak God if he has allowed your people to become vassals of mighty Rome.
Viktor Shel
#57. Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war.
Desiderius Erasmus
#59. Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.
Clarence Jordan
#60. Yoga subsumes all; God, religion, and philosophy.
Aporva Kala
#61. Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
Rabindranath Tagore
#62. They don't think up questions like that on the basis of what might be true; they concoct the questions on the basis of what might be sensational if it just happened to be true.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#63. The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.
Abraham Maslow
#64. Science enables humans to satisfy their needs. It does nothing to change them. They are no different today from what they have always been. There is progress in knowledge, but not in ethics. This s the verdict both of science and history, and the view of every one of the world's religions.
John Gray
#65. Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.
Abhijit Naskar
#66. Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of religion, it should be as Jesus says, "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret".
Swami Vivekananda
#68. In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
George Orwell
#69. If you don't act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.
Abhijit Naskar
#70. Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble it may be, art cannot perform a single one of the miracles of nature. And besides, why imitate nature when it can be perceived by all those endowed with senses?
Kahlil Gibran
#71. Science is never rigid, it is flexible. It can bend towards any direction that ultimately tends to do good to humanity. Religion must learn the same. And the moment any religion learns that, it would become the most scientific religion in the world.
Abhijit Naskar
#72. When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
Gautama Buddha
#73. Love is the best religion;
it only cares and never kills anyone.
Debasish Mridha
#74. It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
Suman Jyoty Bhante
#75. Vocal cords are not rental units. No Hebrew prophet, nor Mohammed, nor any founder of any cult or religion ever spoke the words of anybody but themselves.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#77. We have to get over the idea that there's some right way to live.
Marty Rubin
#78. You ask me, I'd guess heaven and hell look pretty much the same," I replied. "Only in hell, everything is just a little out of reach.
Chris Holm
#79. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
#80. It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.
John Stuart Mill
#81. The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.
Justus Von Liebig
#82. The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Fulton J. Sheen
#83. Philosophy are questions that may never get a answer, religion is an answer that may never be questioned
Anonymous
#84. It's gotten far easier to allow ourselves to hate than it is to choose to love.
Sam Killermann
#86. Thus it is, we sow motions of hatred out of our own impoverished understanding of love. Yet we do so in the name of love. The perplexing precipice of the illusory infirmity.
Steven Storm
#87. The more rigid and exclusive one makes the border between philosophy and theology, the more that distinction itself has to fall on the side of theology, and the more inaccessible that very distinction becomes to philosophy
Gregory B. Sadler
#88. Religion is most often a curse;
it teaches us to hate others.
Debasish Mridha
#89. If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs," then clearly I had better be scrying the signs.
Annie Dillard
#90. Trying to find answers to why and how my life got into such a dismal mess, I sought answers in the scriptures, in religion and philosophy, but it only confused me further. Stories, on the other hand, helped me cope, heal and recover.
Indu Muralidharan
#91. [L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.
Stephen King
#92. Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
Matthew Arnold
#93. Free will? Either you follow the word of God, or you'll be punished with eternal hellfire. That's the same kind of "choice" an abuse boyfriend gives you: 'Either you do exactly what I say, or I'll beat the shit out of you.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#94. [A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)
David Hume
#95. I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy ... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
Jose Mujica
#96. Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being.
Paul Tillich
#97. The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#98. An effort disbursed to become like a god takes us closer towards finding him.
Deepak Vidyarthi
#99. You know, I don't believe that religions are religions. No, I believe they are philosophies with some good ideas and some fuckin' weird ones.
Eddie Izzard
#100. In life, you have 3 choices. Give up, give in, or give it your all.
Charleston Parker
