Childhood Quote by Auguste Comte Download Open image “Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.” — Auguste Comte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Children Education Illusion Religion
Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education. — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the state, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion is a universal security blanket for a lot of people, especially children. It gives them a sense of security, albeit, I am relatively certain, a false one. It can cost them their freedom, self respect, sanity, and individuality. Teach children to respect life, themselves, and others; to be self reliant, to use their intelligence to draw their own conclusions,… — Rock Cowles Copy Share
“Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions… — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws-that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now… — Auguste Comte Copy Share
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
“The human mind, by its nature, employs in its progress three methods of philosophizing, the character of which is essentially different, and even radically opposed: viz., the theological method, the metaphysical, and the positive. Hence arises three philosophies, or general systems of conceptions on the aggregate of phenomena, each of which excludes the others. The first is the necessary point… — Auguste Comte Copy Share
The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in which we move, me may in time ascertain the mean temperature of the heavenly bodies: but I regard this order of facts as for ever excluded from our recognition. We can never learn their internal constitution, nor, in… — Auguste Comte Copy Share
Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now at this time of childhood crisis and educational breakdown. Waldorf Education nurtures the intellectual, psychological and spiritual unfolding of the child. The concerned parent and teacher will find a multitude of problems clearly addressed in this… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
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