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Religion Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.
- Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. But it is…
- True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then…
- Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable…
- Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human…
- A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he…
- Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.
- Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals…
- Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state…
- The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.
- How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached…
- Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
- I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
- All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
- Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
- It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
- Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be…
- When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see…
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