Awe Quote by Philip Pullman

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

“Religions are metaphorical systems that give us bigger containers in which to hold our lives. A spiritual life allows us to move beyond the…

— Mary Bray Pipher

Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make…

— Ram Dass

The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance…

— Radhanath Swami

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill…

— Neal Stephenson

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

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

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

— F. H. Bradley