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Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902“What We Believe In”, written in Chicago (3 March 1894), Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, vol. 4
- Education
If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.
Voltaire1694–1778
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire1694–1778Letter to Mme. d’Épinal, Ferney (26 December 1760) from Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance (Garnier frères, Paris, 1881), vol. IX, letter # 4390 (p. 124)
- Money
Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm?
Voltaire1694–1778Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano’s, 1927), transl. Richard Aldington, letter 160 from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia, 6 April 1767
- Anti-Religion
- Christianity
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire1694–1778“Whether it is useful to maintain the people in superstition,” Treatise on Toleration (1763)
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Mother Night (1962)
- Anti-Religion
- Faith
I don’t know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves “Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.”
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007A Man Without a Country (2005)
- Comedy
The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Hocus Pocus (1990)
- Christianity
- Good & Evil
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
- Anti-Religion
Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.
George Washington1732–1799George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
- Morality
- Politics
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island (1790)
- Liberty
For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island (18 August 1790)
- Freedom
- Government
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
Evelyn Waugh1903–1966Put Out More Flags (1942), Ch. 1: Autumn, § 7
For the true mystic the principle continues to hold: the creature must be silent so that God may speak.
Max Weber1864–1920Max Weber, The Rejection of the World and Theodicy, 1916.
- God
Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.
Daniel Webster1782–1852
- Christianity