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“Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.”

May Religion Sea Remains Bottom Calm Wave Surface

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.”

Mind Religion Brain Particular Remains Site Harbors Satellites Glands

Author:E. O. Wilson

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

“Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.”

Children Stills Whole Facts Romance Religion Given Nations Business Family Morality Essentials Economics Remains Rounds Casts Glamour Begets Props Pluck True Or False Rearing A Child

Author:Eleanor Rathbone

“Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained--in success--and its attainment is historically recorded. The religious goal remains, even in man's highest experiences, that which simply provides direction on the mortal way; it never enters into historical consummation.”

Men Way May Mean Ends Facts Political Religion Politics Goal Religious Highest Remains Historical Mortals Attainment Ends And Means

Book:Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman

Source: Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman

“Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.”

People Religion Literature Church Theater Remains Devotion Public Service

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.”

Men Long Religion Faith Belief Animal Knowledge Learning Path Greater Diversity Respect Fundamentals Remains Individualism Diverse Inquiring Free Thought Unanimity Divergence

Author:Arthur Keith

“Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.”

People Men Able Form Religion Order Consciousness Modern Higher Easier Relation Remains Everyday Everyday Life Elevation Modern Man

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.”

Religion Church Religious Impossible Atheism Remains Atheist Absurd Secular Agnostic Miraculous Vacuums Unreasonable There Is No God Atheistic If There Is A God There Being No God

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll