#religion

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Die Religion...ist das Opium des Volkes ↗