Enlightening Quote by Chapman Cohen Download Open image “Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.” — Chapman Cohen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Enlightening Religion
Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all. — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of… — James Callis Copy Share Image
Religion is something that is very well intentioned, for all intents and purposes, for everyone around the world, but sometimes it can start to… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“[Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The fact before… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man who understands… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“Now, if the theist could prove that out of a number of equally possible lines of development living beings show one fixed form, and… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
The devil and God are components of a Siamese twin. Neither has any existence apart from the other. In denying the existence of the… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“Science gives up to religion that which cannot be known, and as it does not know what it is, that cannot be known, it… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist —… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will show up.… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of… — Khalil Copy Share Image
It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Arya Maloney updates the basis and practice of transpersonal psychology by using the spiritual principles of India's masters and the transformational alchemy inherent in… — Arnold Mindell Copy Share Image
Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me. — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image