Education Quote by Steve Kumar

“At his present stage, you see, he has an idea of ‘Christians’ in his mind which he supposes to be spiritual but which, in…

— C.S. Lewis

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose…

— Sigmund Freud

“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the…

— Sigmund Freud

“Christianity sedulously fosters, and in a sense permanently satisfies, man's craving for mental dissatisfaction by offering him the comfort of a crucified God.”

— Michael Polanyi

“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive…

— Thomas Hardy

“In the religious myths, the creative will appears personified in God, and man already feels himself guilty when he assumes himself to be like…

— Otto Rank

“Modern man is determined to believe; that he has demonstrated by the very strength with which he has clutched at absurdities, at fleeting phantasms…

— Ernst Jünger

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which…

— George Eliot

“He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that…

— Stephen King

“If a person is plagued by religious doubts,as many are in their youth, he takes to persecuting unbelievers; if troubled by love, he turns…

— Robert Musil

“He might be ALONE in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly…

— George Orwell

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

— Thomas Paine