Art Quote by Mircea Eliade

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of…

— Albert Einstein

Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second…

— Emile Durkheim

The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by…

— Sam Harris

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

— Sigmund Freud

Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity of its…

— Adolf Hitler

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches…

— Albert Einstein

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

— Herbert Spencer

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

— Frances Wright

“It strikes me that religion—in its essence—seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events…

— Brandon Sanderson

That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science…

— Susan Jacoby

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far…

— Albert Einstein