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Religion Quotes by Alan Watts
- Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol...
- In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe,…
- The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
- Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
- A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I…
- Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to…
- Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found…
- The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition…
- Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the…
More Religion Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi