Idols Quote by Criss Jami

The idol is the expression of religion.

— Swami Vivekananda

“There exists no greater or more painful anxiety for a man who has freed himself from all religious bias, than how he shall soonest…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

— Joseph Hall

It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him…

— Baron d'Holbach

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

— Martha Ostenso

Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The ancient sages said, ‘He who is angry—it is the same as if he worshiped idols.’ They also said, ‘One who yields to anger—if…

— Rodger Kamenetz

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind…

— Ninon de L'Enclos

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

— Victoria Jackson

But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth of ours…

— Moby