Art Quote by Alain de Botton

“religions merit our attention for their sheer conceptual ambition; for changing the world in a way that few secular institutions ever have. They have…

— Alain de Botton

“A religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends, myths or any type of literary device in order to establish a…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“The major religions do, after all, boast some very sophisticated and subtle philosophical and spiritual traditions,”

— David Bentley Hart

“Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and…

— Will Durant

“Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence.”

— Voltaire

“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not…

— Alain de Botton

“the moral and spiritual imperatives of religion are important for humanity and should not be relegated unthinkingly to the scrap heap of history in…

— Karen Armstrong

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut…

— Felix Adler

“What I was referring to was not religion as such, but a special category of abstractions, the most exalted one, which, for centuries, had…

— Ayn Rand

Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.

— Philip Kitcher