Quotes of: Religious-people Keyword

For thousands of years, philosophers, thinkers and prophets have besmirched money and called it the root of all evil. Be that as it may, money is also the apogee of human tolerance. Money is more open-minded than language, state laws, cultural codes,...

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All I’m arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there’s no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some ...

Sam Harris

Religion asks followers to believe in things nobody can see, however, animal activists ask people to see things they can prove. When Christian animal and environmental activists finally demand that their church be better stewards over the world, we w...

Shannon L. Alder

I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing. : You're n...

Bill Blass

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

William James

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Walter Pater

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

Guru Nanak

I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.

Jason Silva

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Victor Hugo

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.

Specimen Days

Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.

Minor Poems

If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it.

The Martian

I could help you,” I said. “Counseling, drugs, a religious advisor, a girlfriend.

Notorious Nineteen

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

A Nietzsche Reader

It isn't as important to religiously cliam God/Jesus, then it is for us to live what we're professing to cliam"...

Ladies Rise Above Your Emotions

Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.

A Madness of Angels

The quickest way to alter an altar is not with a hammer, or even religious deconstruction, but with a typo.

This Book Title is Invisible

Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.

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