Born Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization.

— Swami Vivekananda

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

— Camille Paglia

“You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve. They grow out of a need, just like any other…

— James Jones

Religion reveals itself in struggling to reveal the meaning of the world.

— S H Miller

Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it…

— Sri Aurobindo

“Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new…

— Emil Cioran

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in…

— Fred Hoyle

There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.

— Andy Rooney

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

— Frank Herbert