Books Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Whether the Koran is of eternity I don't ask about that That it is the book of books I believe it to be so…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is no book like the Qur’an. It quickens hearts and transforms lives, it leads whole people from glory to glory. It is the…

— Khurram Murad

However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Adso of Melk: The Koran, the Bible of the infidels, a perverse book … William of Baskerville: A book containing a wisdom different from ours.”

— Umberto Eco

“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we…

— Thomas Paine

“As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never…

— Sam Harris

“The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

"Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending…

— John Wesley

“The true religion would have to teach greatness and wretchedness, inspire self-esteem and self-contempt, love and hate.”

— Blaise Pascal

“When we examine, not the language of the propaganda, but the witness of the combatants themselves, religion does not occupy the first place. Their…

— Tzvetan Todorov

“For much of the history of Islam, moreover, the Christian world was not noticeably ahead in political or economic power, or in culture. When…

— Philip Jenkins