Afraid of death Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of…

— Christopher Hitchens

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of…

— A. N. Wilson

We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of…

— Alain de Botton

We lack rituals in this modern world.

— Elizabeth McGovern

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are…

— Madeleine L'Engle

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well…

— John Hench

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

— Anne Rice

We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

— Stewart Brand

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a…

— Albert Einstein

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are…

— Ruth Hurmence Green

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

— R. D. Laing