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“All religions are a part of Divinity. And if we didn't have one of those religions, then Divinity would not be what it is. It would be something else. We create our concept of Divinity through our religions.”
“All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.”
“All religions are based on obsolete terminology.”
“All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.”
Source: The Enemy of the Good
“All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books.”
“All religions are both harmful and untrue.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“All religions are branches of one big tree.”
“All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.”
“All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.”
“All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.”
Source: Collected Works
“All religions are correct but the religion that searches for ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Who is the doer?’ is on the last final path of religion. And which knows this ‘Who’ is the final religion.”
“All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.”
Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
“All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.”
“All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions and political parties for the many good things they seek to achieve, I do not and cannot belong to any of these `isms,' religions or political parties, for the Absolute Truth, while equally including them, transcends all of them and leaves no room for separative divisions which are all equally false.”
“All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.”
Source: On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura
“All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings.”
“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
“All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.”
Source: Farewell to Reason
“All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.”
“All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.”
“All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.”
“All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“All religions are mere echoes of this one great religion of Humanism.”
Source: Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
“All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose.
Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.”
“All religions are nothing but a science - or an art - to teach you how to die. And the only way to teach you how to die is to teach you how to live. They are not separate. If you know what right living is, you will know what right dying is. So the first thing, or the most fundamental thing is: how to live.”
“All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.”
“All religions are right in their own way”
Source: The Egg
“All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Muslim
“All religions are the same. They all lead to God. God is everybody ... The same blood flows through us all, the arms, the legs, the heart, all are the same. See no difference.
See all the same.”
“All religions are the same. They all lead to God. God is everybody.”
“All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.”
“All religions are true but none are literal.”
“All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.”
“All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.”
“All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's
Divine Presence.”
“All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.”
Source: The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche
“All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“All religions begin with the cry Help.”
“All religions believe that a Deity, a God, a Supreme Being, by whatever name they choose to call "It," existed at the beginning of creation.”
Source: I Ching Life: Becoming Your Authentic Self
“All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.”
“All religions do not point to God”
Source: Jesus Among Other Gods: (Youth Edition)
“All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.”
“All religions have always hated females.”
“All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.”
“All religions have been made by men.”
“All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.”
“All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.”
Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays
“All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time and finally decline and perish. Mahomed himself never pretended that the Koran was the last message of God and there would be no other. God and Truth outlast these religions and manifest themselves anew in whatever way or form the Divine Wisdom chooses.”
Source: The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice
“All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality.”
“All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a variety of elements, some of which seem so unworthy, sordid and at odds with man’s reason, that any strong and vigorous intelligence laughs at them... The human intellect is only capable of tackling mediocre subjects: it disdains petty subjects, and is startled by large ones. There is no reason to be surprised if it finds any religion hard to accept at first, for all are deficient in the mediocre and the commonplace, nor that it should require skill to induce belief. For the strong intellect laughs at religion, while the weak and superstitious mind marvels at it but is easily scandalized by it.”
Source: Of wisdome