Religious Sayings

279 sayings found from 279 authors

Why do you write to me, to a sinful man, when you yourself are a holy man?

— Ivan the Terrible 1564
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Religion is a disease.

— Garibaldi Undated, but widely attributed
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Trust in God and keep your powder dry.

— Bismarck Mid-19th Century
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Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with perfect virtue.

— Aristotle c. 350 BCE
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The moral law is holy.

— Immanuel Kant 1788
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The two great narcotics of Europe, alcohol and Christianity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche 1889
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Religion is the opium of the people.

— Karl Marx 1843
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The light of natural reason is sufficient to give us a clear and distinct conception of God.

— Rene Descartes 1641
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The right of all sovereigns is derived from the people, not from God.

— Thomas Hobbes 1642 (Latin), 1651 (English)
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The existence of evil is a proof that God is not omnipotent, or not benevolent, or both.

— Arthur Schopenhauer 1818
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The great advantage of the present-day bourgeoisie is to possess no moral, no ideal, no religion, no God, no sacred values.

— Simone de Beauvoir 1949
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Religion is, as it were, the last stop. The point where we give up.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein c. 1938-1946
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I am firmly convinced that the better we know the world, the less we shall be inclined to believe in God and immortality.

— Bertrand Russell 1927
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

— Machiavelli 1532
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There is no nation in the world that has more need of religion than the English.

— Montesquieu c. 1729-1730
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My own mind is my own church.

— Thomas Paine 1794
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It is a melancholy truth; yet a truth it is, that women, as well as men, without a proper education, will ever be a prey to their prejudices.

— Mary Wollstonecraft 1792
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It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, but the soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson 1836
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Sometimes I almost think that I am a pagan, and that I would rather worship the sun than any other god.

— Henry David Thoreau 1850
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I do not say that the Americans are more religious than other people; but I say that they have a greater respect for religion.

— Alexis de Tocqueville 1835
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