Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

Thomas Lynch

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

Tom Stoppard

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Aldous Huxley

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

David Knopfler

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Eckhart Tolle

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

George Santayana

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Heinrich Heine

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

H. L. Mencken

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Herbert Read

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matthew Arnold

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

Michel Houellebecq

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

Michael Moorcock

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Richard Dawkins

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Richard Dawkins

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

Salman Rushdie