Entheogen Quote by Daniel Waterman

A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with…

— Huston Smith

“Were it possible to induce the masses to adopt atheism, this belief would exhibit all the intolerant ardor of a religious sentiment, and in…

— Gustave Le Bon

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the…

— John Henry Newman

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

— Matthew Arnold

“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity ― a…

— Sam Harris

“This singular belief that God exists beyond or outside the Earth...shaped a paradigm that led to a disconnection between people and all other species.…

— Catriona MacGregor

“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

“In a world beset by fundamentalists of both believing and secular varieties, it must be possible to balance a rejection of religious faith with…

— Alain de Botton

“Insofar as the intervention of grace constitutes the core of religious experience, the constant aim of every religious movement ought to be a reduction…

— Adam Miller

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology,…

— Sam Harris

“The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology,…

— Sam Harris