Irreligion Quote by G.K. Chesterton Download Open image ““Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.”” — G.K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Irreligion Religion Worldview
“Men corrupted religion; and a man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow… — Heather Graham Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.” — Björk Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine how much our religion would change if we heard it through the mouths of women, instead of only mostly men?” — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
“Where is the true religion? It is where women, men, youth, children, elderly, the illiterate and the educated are all attracted.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“We need to understand that a man can never lay down his religion and act as a religionless person.” — Joseph C. Morecraft III Copy Share Image
“A man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man.” — Heather Graham Copy Share Image
“They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods… — Daniel L. Pals Copy Share Image
“Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.” — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery that her thrifty dressmaking went with a considerable feminine care for dress--the one feminine thing that had never failed her solitary self-respect. In consequence Smith pestered her with a theory (which he really seemed to take… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my last dogma defiantly) it is not native to man to be so. Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called "Keep to-morrow dark," and which is also named… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the city because they know the city; but it will always be an exceptional sort of citizen who has or claims the right to rule over ten cities, and these remote and altogether alien cities…To make all… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow lady going up from a small Essex town, and a very short Roman Catholic priest going up from a small Essex village. When it came to the last case, Valentin gave it up and almost laughed.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. If you are merely a sceptic, you must sooner or later ask yourself the question, "Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our… — George Eliot Copy Share
What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady… — Krishnananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the claim is… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
