Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. – Walter Scott
Real religion is no religion at all. – Lauryn Hill
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. – Robert Bork
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. – Clarence Darrow
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. – Alan Turing
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. – Cat Stevens
The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events. – Cat Stevens
They have hijacked my religion. – Cat Stevens
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt. – Martin Scorsese
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. – Brian Eno
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas. – Brian Eno
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. – Peter Ustinov
Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. – George Gurdjieff
Religion leaves no room for human complexity. – Daniel Radcliffe
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. – Alfred North Whitehead
