Men, finding no answers to the sunnan [ten thousand…

All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out…

— Frank Herbert

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

— Anne Rice

“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

“What a wretched circle this poor way of reasoning among the Men draws them insensibly into. Why is learning useless to us? Because we…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who…

— Enoch Fitch Burr

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

— Isaac D'Israeli

How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

— Lucretius

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

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

"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

“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