Philosophy Quote by Edward Gibbon

The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and…

— Edward Gibbon

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as…

— Edward Gibbon

“The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as…

— Edward Gibbon

“According to the maxims of universal toleration, the Romans protected a superstition which they despised.”

— Edward Gibbon

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

— Edward Gibbon

“People worship different things; there must be 'no coercion in matters of faith!”

— Karen Armstrong

“If there is one fable, which would seem entitled to escape the analysis, which we have undertaken of religious poems and sacred legends, by…

— Anonymous

“Christianity made people unpatriotic, made them intolerant and dogmatic, willing to criticize other people’s gods and alternative lifestyles.”

— Rod Bennett

“Contemporaries struggled to make sense of what, to them, was the complete collapse of the world order. “Why does [God] allow us to be…

— Peter Frankopan

“Could anything be more improbable than that a religion following a man born of an unwed mother among a widely despised people in an…

— Everett Ferguson

“Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is…

— John Piper

“When Christianity proscribed the public exercise of the ancient worships, the partisans of the latter were compelled to meet in secret for the celebration…

— Éliphas Lévi