Experience Quote by Albert Einstein

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

— Thomas Hobbes

When I realized this fear, this uncertainty, this potential of dying, I guess I needed something greater to hold onto than what we can…

— Goldie Hawn

There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.

— Julia Quinn

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

— Jeremy Taylor

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

— Lucretius

No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that…

— Michael Grant

Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.

— Michael Grant

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

— Thomas Hobbes

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

— George Santayana