Philosophy Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“Philosophy of course is the essence of every religion; mythology explains and illustrates it by means of the more or less legendary lives of…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Here and here only in all time the myth must have become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not 'a religion', nor…

— C.S. Lewis

“The major religions do, after all, boast some very sophisticated and subtle philosophical and spiritual traditions,”

— David Bentley Hart

“There are, then, three sorts of religious experiences. The ancient rites, which are essentially propitiatory. The mysteries, which purge the soul and allow us…

— Gore Vidal

“Religions are all living faiths and their essence does not consist in their externals such as rituals, methods of prayer, ceremonies, etc. It rather…

— Kedar Nath Tiwari

“(what myths of any religion are rational?).”

— John H. Martin

“You can understand a philosophy thoroughly without having to follow it; but you understand religion only partially, that is, as a mere philosophy, unless…

— Raheel Farooq

“Religion as a philosophy is superior to religion as a practice.”

— Daya Kudari

Hinduism especially - in the absence of codified rituals or a book of rules to circumscribe it - has always functioned as part philosophy,…

— Barkha Dutt

“Philosophy arose out of religion,”

— Herman Bavinck

“Religion is an individual experience of a universal mind and universal experience of an individual mind.”

— Ajmal Siddiqi

Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its myths are…

— Ayn Rand