#religion

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#article #belief #employed #endeavor #establish

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#burning #causes #counseling #course #economics

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

— Annie Besant

#brought #ever #glad #good #good news

Danger past, God is forgotten. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#faith #reason #religion #faith

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#last #refuge #religion #savagery

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding. ↗

— Amit Ray

#meditation #religion #self-discovery #life

when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race. ↗

— Julia Gregson

#horizon #meditation #religion #sky #thinking

Know thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#introspection #religion #religion

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#humanity #philosophy #religion #change