Best religion & philosophy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.”

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Author:Swami Vivekananda

“In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.”

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Book:My Religion

Source: My Religion

“Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.”

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Author:James Freeman Clarke

“Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.”

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Book:The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller

Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller

“Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.”

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Book:The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

“There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.”

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Book:The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

“The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.”

“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.”

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Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.”

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Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.”

Source: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion

“The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away.”

“Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.”

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Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.”

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Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”

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Author:David Hume

“There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.”

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Author:Eugene Ionesco

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803

“I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.”

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Author:James Joyce

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”

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Author:John Keats

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”

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Book:The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

Source: The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

“No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.”

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Author:Annie Besant

“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

Author:William Shakespeare

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.”

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Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.”

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Author:Jimmy Swaggart

“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”

“A cult is a religion with no political power.”

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Author:Tom Wolfe

“...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.”

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Book:Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati

Source: Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”

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Book:The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”

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Book:The Gum Thief: A Novel

Source: The Gum Thief: A Novel

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