Ikhlaas is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator. — Al-Jahiz Copy Share Image
“It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the… — Alfred Jules Ayer Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“That the writers of the Bible recognized a plurality of gods -- were polytheists -- is proved by the following 'And the… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image
Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The first monotheist religion known to us appeared in Egypt, c.1350 BC, when Pharaoh Akhenaten declared that one of the minor deities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism,… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism. — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
By God, we shall not stop, God willing, except at the doorsteps of the White House, and to raise the banner of… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship. — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The further humans move from hunters to horticulturists to agriculturists to urbanisation to industrialists, the further the sacred recedes, first to heaven,… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Thabit ibn Qurra (AD 836-901, and also born in Harran), would have had little patience with loaded terms like "star idolatry" which… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
