Religion Quote by Seneca Download Open image ““Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”” — Seneca ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Religion
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is a Religion. It is because of knowledge where the Path to God is shown.” — Asherry Magalla Copy Share Image
“Religion is nothing more than bad concepts held in place of good ones for all time. It is denial - at once full of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always led to… — Dr. Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“It is the greatest folly that is in Babel for people to strive about religion, so that they contend vehemently about opinions of their… — Jakob Böhme Copy Share Image
“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“the wise man is self-sufficient, that he can do without friends, not that he desires to do without them. When I say "can," I… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“This, I say, is the highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom, – that deed and word should be in accord, that” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“But both courses are to be avoided; you should not copy the bad simply because they are many, nor should you hate the many… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“I’ve come across people who say that there is a sort of inborn restlessness in the human spirit and an urge to change one’s… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image