Agnostic Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer Download Open image “Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.” — Arthur Schopenhauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agnostic Atheist Darkness Firefly Order Positive atheism Religion Science Shining Spiritual
For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark. — Paul Arden Copy Share Image
In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and orthodox churches. Darkness indicates that something… — Dan Kimball Copy Share Image
All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is… — Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light of the glow-worm, which gives no heat, and illumines… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
All world-religions are the mirror of the One Face. In them shines the One Light. — Dada JP Vaswani Copy Share Image
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. — Muhammad Naguib Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In accordance with such zeal, by reducing the external world to a matter of faith, he wanted merely to open a little door for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“For the will, as that which is common to all, is for that reason also common: consequently, every vehement emergence of will is common,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Alles Urdenken geschieht in Bildern: darum ist die Phantasie ein so nothwendiges Werkzeug desselben, und werden phantasielose Köpfe nie etwas Großes leisten, - es… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul." — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that. — Alfre Woodard Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
If a humanist or an atheist or an agnostic says, "We'll bake you a pie," we can go right into the kitchen and bake… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents,… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Agnostic is one who asserts 'what no one denies' that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.” — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
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