Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
Devotion is a social force.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
God has no religion.
Faith without doubt is addiction
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
