#religion

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#art #beautiful #believes #days #egyptians

I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that. ↗

— Gary Numan

#ago #album #been #called #constant

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything. ↗

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

#beings #human #human beings #human nature #include

Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#before #christian #culture #destroy #ever

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#atheist #been #believe #both #church

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#almost #another #because #countenance #elements

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

#enter #intimacy #into #must #people

Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#fight #like #look #manifestation #militancy

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#been #go #go to hell #hell #people

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes. ↗

— James Randi

#been #better #characters #costumes #difference