Absence Quote by Anonymous

To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction with which…

— Peter Medawar

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

— David Eller

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

— H. L. Mencken

“All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic…

— Jon Krakauer

Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the…

— Annie Besant

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

— Frances Wright

The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity

— Donald Morgan

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

— George Coyne

A religion must be instrumental in spiritualising the individual into a boundless and holistic nature.

— Lobsang Tenzin

Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing,…

— William Robertson Smith

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it,…

— Blaise Pascal

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

— Don Cupitt