842 quotes found
“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”
“Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.”
“A gentle Quaker hearing a strange noise in his house one night got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend ' he said ...”
“Religion is a way of walking not a way of talking.”
“Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.”
“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.”
“Religion converts despair which destroys into resignation which submits.”
“Audible at five miles painful at three and lethal at one.”
“When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.”
“While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.”
“If the thunder is not loud the peasant forgets to cross himself.”
“Infidel n: in New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople one who does.”
“Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.”
“As for a future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.”
“My theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.”
“My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.”
“The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Vox populi vox dei.)”
“I'm not ok - you're not ok and that's ok.”
“Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.”
“I consider myself a Hindu Christian Moslem Jew Buddhist and Confucian.”
