Logo
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. – John Updike, Self-Consciousness, 1989

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Religion
category

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense. – Billy Sunday

Category:
Religion

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, youve got to help pay for piping. And the Piper! – Abigail Van Buren

Category:
Religion

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science. – Muhammad Iqbal

Category:
Religion

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies. – Bill Maher

Category:
Religion

Random Quotes

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out. – Josh Brolin

Category:
Wisdom

By asking the question Am I happy?, and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question – Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try? – Alastair Campbell

Category:
Happiness

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. – Elia Kazan

Category:
Poetry

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion. – Lytton Strachey

Category:
Religion