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Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.
— Abhijit Naskar
Religion is an outcome of the human weakness, or The limitation of human knowledge, or the fear.
— Anonymous
There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.
— Sam Harris
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)
— Markus Zusak
If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
— Benjamin Franklin
Human brain is structured to avoid any kind of refutation of one's religious beliefs.
— Abhijit Naskar
we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.
— Patricia Crone
Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.
— Hiroshi Sugimoto
Inner Knowledge
You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being. — Idries Shah
You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being. — Idries Shah
Whether someone's a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu or a Parsi, they are foremost a human being. And that entitles them to a morality and kindness.
— Sulaiman Dawood
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
— Desiderius Erasmus
You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.
— Carl Sagan
There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.
— Dalai Lama
The inner imaginary universe of the human primate is the battlefield of the ages
— Christopher Zzenn Loren
Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.
— Namsoon Kang
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.
— Jonathan Haidt
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
— Florence Nightingale
Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.
— Michael Crichton
To be a human being is to be a child of God
— M. Bartolo-Abela
If a religion cannot help a human wherever he or she stands, it is not of much use.
— Abhijit Naskar
When all that's left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we'll know what it means when the last human breath expires.
— Zeena Schreck
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
— C.S. Lewis
Bring all your power out my friend, and throw away such Gods, such doctrines, such institutions, that impede in the path of human progress.
— Abhijit Naskar
How do evil people find the strength to do good?
— Keith Hollihan
I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
— Wole Soyinka
Rightly known, God illumines all reality, all human experience, all revelation, and all religion
— Thomas C. Oden
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion ... would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
— John Adams
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
— Eddie Izzard
In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
— Krista Tippett
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
— Jose Saramago
Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.
— Doug Stanhope
There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.
— Saul Bellow
the fear of the human dead, which, on the whole, I believe to have been probably the most powerful force in the making of primitive religion.
— James George Frazer
Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.
— Georgie Henley
The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.
— Abhijit Naskar
Religion has at one time or another been thought to fill four main roles in human life: explanation, exhortation, consolation and inspiration.
— Richard Dawkins
Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.
— Jeremy Griffith
There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
Praying purifies the human heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
— Daniel Dennett
Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
— Frederick Buechner
Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.
— Edward Abbey
Religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.
— Tom Robbins
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
— Dalai Lama
Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.
— Georgia Harkness
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.
— Albert Einstein
The Kingdom of God is an earthly experience which manifests in an unearthly manner.
— Abhijit Naskar
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
— Georgia Harkness
This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.
— Adolf Hitler
There are no perfect human beings and even those who we pray such as Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Krishna among others, were not perfect.
— Santosh Kalwar
Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
— Terence McKenna
You the human are the highest temple of God. I would rather worship you, than worship any temple, image or book.
— Abhijit Naskar
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
— Abraham Lincoln
The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.
— Ali Shariati
Before our race, nationality, or religion, we are all human beings. Let's celebrate our differences and not fight over them.
— Rosie Fellner
There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.
— Richard Dawkins
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
— Ayad Akhtar
All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
— David Eagleman
The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.
— Bono
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.
— Arundhati Roy
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
— Richard John Neuhaus
I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
— Simon Callow
Men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it.
— M.J. Rose
As the religious authorities often say, the institution is human, while the substance of the religion is transcendent.
— Thomas Moore
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
The Last Judgement is the Last Judgement, but a human being who spent his life in Russia, has to be, without any hesitation, placed into Paradise.
— Joseph Brodsky
One of the commonest weaknesses of human intelligence is the wish to reconcile opposing principles and to purchase harmony at the expensive of logic.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Religion
that voice of the deepest human experience. — Matthew Arnold
that voice of the deepest human experience. — Matthew Arnold
We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Come take a look at one of the oldest human urges- religion. After all, the only thing that makes us screwier is sex.
— Lilith Saintcrow
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).
— Terry Pratchett
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
— Michelle Bachelet
Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.
— Miroslav Volf
I mused about the human phenomenon that went by the title "organized religion." What, I wondered, was disorganized religion?
— Roland Merullo
Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.
— Stephen Jay Gould
No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.
— Huston Smith
Love is a human religion in which another person is believed in. - Robert Seidenberg
— Dorothy Tennov
Humans are strange. ... They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important - that they are important. ... it's vanity.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
— Blaise Pascal
I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field ... The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion.
— Jerry Brown
The human mind is an open network of complex softwares working together.
— Sukant Ratnakar
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.
— Michael Medved
The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.
— C. G. Jung
The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.
— N. Scott Momaday
I'm an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women's rights.
— Taslima Nasrin
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
— Christopher Morley
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
— Christopher Hitchens