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Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet ↗

— Bill Watterson

#karl-marx #philosophy #television #religion

إن عبادة الإله الواحد وحدها ستقرب الانسان من السلام الذي يتكلم عليه الجميع ولايفعل أحد شيئاً لتحقيقه. ↗

— Malcolm X

#god #human #islam #malcom-x #peace

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#dishonesty #religion #religion

The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same. ↗

— Anonymous

#wisdom #religion

I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#religion #religion

the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding ↗

— Anonymous

#religion #spirituality #wisdom #religion

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#literature #reading #religion

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#defiance #despair #done #god #greatest

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#life #love #romance #death

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind. ↗

— George Carlin

#mind #religion #thinking #religion