All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most…

“Men, finding no answers to the sunnan [ten thousand religious questions from the Shari-ah] now apply their own reasoning. All men seek to be…

— Frank Herbert

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

— Frank Herbert

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people.…

— Booker T. Washington

“As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays – the ones that gives pain to soul) have not gone away, one has not attained vitraag’s (the enlightened…

— Dada Bhagwan

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to…

— Walter Pater

"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief…

— Peter De Vries

A master knows there is nothing to seek and nothing to find. You are already enlightened, and all the words in the world will…

— Nate

There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with things having…

— Masaaki Hatsumi

The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it,…

— Upton Sinclair

“It is ultimately the ebony of our pain, our blackest monuments, which lead us to seek an enlightened way of living. We are unable…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in…

— Susanna Wesley

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any…

— Max Planck

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you…

— Samuel Johnson

Wouldst thou know the lawfulness of the action which thou desirest to undertake, let thy devotion recommend it to Divine blessing: if it be…

— Francis Quarles