It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
There is nothing very religious about feeling superior to those who don't share your views. — James Cook Copy Share Image
The most important function of art and science is to Awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I would not want to live in a world drained of all religious feeling. I am not thinking of faith but of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Really it has been a struggle to overcome some of the misconceptions that are put on you when you do something that… — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
Art and religion have the same origin. Art first, or religion first? Maybe consciousness first! Consciousness always comes with religious feeling and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“There was something religious in grandmother's face, not in any sanctimoniously devout or ecstatic sense,but a look full of religious feeling, serenity… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
“Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
“There are a thousand ways of being religious without submitting to Christ’s lordship, and people are practiced in most of them. We… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“...there is no deeper religious feeling than the feeling for the natural world. I wouldn't separate the world of nature from the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“He kissed the cross greedily; he made haste to kiss, as though in haste not to forget to provide himself with something… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“religious feeling; but in Miss Brooke's case, religion alone would have determined it; and Celia mildly acquiesced in all her sister's sentiments,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Listen, Parfyon, a few moments ago you asked me a question, and this is my answer: the essence of religious feeling has… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Consoler of our misery, religion is at the same time the most natural of our emotions. Unknown to us, all our physical… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
“In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this religious feeling and keep it alive… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien...… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never let your love for your profession overshadow your religious feeling. Depend on it that religion will strengthen, not weaken, your energies,… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image