Character Quote by Voltaire Download Open image ““Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence.”” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Philosophy Religion
“Religion and morality do not go hand in hand. In fact, they are at the opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum.” — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
“Morality itself requires transcendence, the existence of a “real” goodness.” — James W Sire Copy Share Image
“Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality and ethics.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Religion has had the disastrous effect of placing vitally important concepts, such as morality, happiness and love, in a supernatural realm inaccessible to man’s… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“ONE OF THE most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The actual facts of morality are too much on my side for me to fear that my theory can ever be replaced or upset… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
“Just as religion has preempted the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so it has usurped the highest moral concepts of our language,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Morality, as far as I could see, originates in atheism and the realization that no higher power is coming along to feed the hungry… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire 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
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
