Foundation Quote by Muhammad Iqbal

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of…

— Muhammad Iqbal

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

— Richard Taylor

If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a…

— Sigmund Freud

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They…

— Robert Bork

A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with…

— Huston Smith

We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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 has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long,…

— Robert Winston

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

— George Coyne

“The vast stores of knowledge that represent the evolving wisdom borne from the scientific mind is proof positive that religion is no longer relevant…

— Al Stefanelli