Addresses Quote by Huston Smith

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have…

— Sigmund Freud

Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became…

— Karen Armstrong

What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs

— Richard Taylor

There are very good evolutionary reasons for having religion. From early human history we have evolved a need to see God. We have a…

— Jonathan Trigell

A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

A religion must be instrumental in spiritualising the individual into a boundless and holistic nature.

— Lobsang Tenzin

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have…

— Sigmund Freud

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

By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated…

— Bertrand Russell

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation…

— Muhammad Iqbal

Religion is a belief in supernatural entities or forces that have an effect on the natural world - A belief in forces that are…

— Greta Christina

A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all.

— Edwin Lewis