Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding
of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth,
the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.
--Marion Woodman Canadian analyst, writer
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion
and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
--James Michener
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy;
the mad daughter of a wise mother
--Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
--Albert Einstein
There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion
--Albert Einstein
My religion is simple, my religion is kindness.
--Dalai Llama
Superstition is religion that has grown incongruous with intelligence.
--John Tyndall (1820-1893)
Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes
in this religion or that religion, the very purpose of our life is happiness,
the very motion of our life is towards happiness
--The Dalai Lama
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
--G. K. Chesterton
Religion altars the mind.
--Tony Follari Comedian
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak,
men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak,
men mistake medicine for magic.
--Thomas Szasz, M.D.
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