Achievement Quote by Sigmund Freud

“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to think that…

— Edward O. Wilson

“also review the general history of religion and how we saw a rapid acceleration of intellectual and social human progress only after religion’s influence…

— Alan Jeskin

The starting point is the recognition that throughout history, religion has been a cause of bloodshed, and it remains so today. Because religion has…

— John C. Danforth

“Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)”

— Jonathan Haidt

“Traditional religious beliefs have been eroded, not so much by humiliating disproofs of their mythologies as by the growing awareness that beliefs are really…

— Edward O. Wilson

I wish that our culture could retain the symbolism and emotional power of traditional religion while combining it with reason and science and using…

— Allen W. Wood

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of…

— David Hume

“The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with…

— René Girard

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego…

— Muhammad Iqbal

“Religion arose as an effort to explicate the inexplicable, control the uncontrollable, make bearable the unbearable. Belief in a higher power became the most…

— Douglas Preston

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

— Daniel Kahneman

“The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.”

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar