Philosophy Quote by William Ralph Inge

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is…

— William Melmoth

“To reform a religion, one must at first be able to recognize the follies of that religion, then only one can take necessary steps…

— Abhijit Naskar

Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that…

— Will Durant

Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his…

— George Washington

I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact…

— Arthur C. Clarke

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

— George Washington

“Parental teaching is a natural duty--who so fit to look to the child's well being as those who are the authors of his actual…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

— Voltaire

It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is time that…

— Charles Webster Leadbeater

“Schooling as it presently exists, like science before and religion before that, is necessary to the continuation of our culture and to the spawning…

— Derrick Jensen

That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary…

— Benjamin Franklin