Character Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“The primary religion of mankind arises chiefly from an anxious fear of future events; and what ideas will naturally be entertained of invisible, unknown…

— Christopher Hitchens

“But as men farther exalt their idea of their divinity, it is their notion of his power and knowledge only, not of his goodness,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery,…

— Henry Fielding

“For all that exists in man, whether good or evil, is rendered conspicuous by the presence of great danger. His inmost feelings are roused…

— Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker

“There is much hypocrisy inside the heart of a vast majority of religious individuals but their judgment is not yet to come until they…

— Robin Sacredfire

“But we ever find, that even those who have not been deficient in their zeal for piety, nor in reverence and sobriety in handling…

— John Calvin

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a…

— Francis Bacon

“Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place.”

— Duop Chak Wuol

“Nay, if we should suppose, what never happens, that a popular religion were found, in which it was expressly declared, that nothing but morality…

— David Hume

“Our Higher Self is perfect, Omniscient and Almighty. A fragment of God himself. A pure, transparent, luminous, Quintessence.”

— Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

“A person is not religious solely when he worships a divinity, but when he puts all the resources of his mind, the complete submission…

— Gustave Le Bon

“Behold divinity divine enough to abandon divinity. Behold majesty secure enough to proceed un-majestically. Behold strength strong enough to become weakness, goodness good enough…

— Paul Ramsey