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"There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners."
"God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope."
"When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more."
"It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority."
"My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody."
"I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are."
"Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death."
"He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature."
"Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged."
"The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations."
"In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped."
"Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness."
"UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You say, why is that so? Well, because we know what the hell we're looking at!"
"If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it."
"All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion."
"There is nothing in religion but fiction."
"Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion."
"Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence."
"Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters."
"I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct."
