#religion

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. ↗

— Clive Bell

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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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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

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Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#condition #creature #expression #heartless #once

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

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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