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Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
?UnattributedIn Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell (US: Viking, 2006), p. 17
- Philosophy
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899
We must repsect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956), 1
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899
In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900
Puritanism⁠—the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Sententiæ: The Citizen and the State, p. 624
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine1737–1809
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Androcles and the Lion (1913), Preface, The importance of hell in the salvation scheme
What a queer thing is Christian salvation! Believing in firemen will not save a burning house; believing in doctors will not make one well, but believing in a savior saves men. Fudge!
LWLemuel Washburn
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Desmond Morris1928–2026
- Science
Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage.
DPDennis Potter1935–1994
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg1933–2021Address at the Conference on Cosmic Design, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. (April 1999)
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
JFJames Feibleman
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gatesborn 1955“In Search of the Real Bill Gates,” Time (13 January 1997)
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
- Wisdom