Aspect Quote by Hosea Ballou

“Consoler of our misery, religion is at the same time the most natural of our emotions. Unknown to us, all our physical sensations, all…

— Benjamin Constant

“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone…

— Albert Einstein

“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my…

— G.K. Chesterton

What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

— Ibn Hazm

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that…

— Christopher Hitchens

“If a person is plagued by religious doubts,as many are in their youth, he takes to persecuting unbelievers; if troubled by love, he turns…

— Robert Musil

“The philosophers say that the passions are too lively, too fiery; in truth they are weak and languid. All around one sees the mass…

— Charles Fourier

The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.

— Michio Kushi

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

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

— Henri Bergson