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Letter "R" » religions
«Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable»
Author: Gore Vidal
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
aspects, explain, inexplicable, make sense, religions, senseless, sprang, terrifying
«Religions are the cradles of despotism.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
cradled, cradles, despotism, From the Cradle, religions
«Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ascetic, ascetics, condemn, condemning, drive, drive in, has-been, history, pleasures, power, religions, seek, sense, The Vice, throughout, vice
«Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Immortality,
Religion
| Keywords:
immortality, nearly, religions
«Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Persecution
| Keywords:
by law, established, established religion, feature, marked, original, persecution, persecutions, religions, strongly
«Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one»
«There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
destroy, enough, In the, is not, religion, religions, Religions of the world, there, there is, the world, world
«Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Faith,
Human Nature,
Life cycle,
Science,
Truth
| Keywords:
dead, die, proved, record, religions, science, science and religion, The Records
«Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
alike, fables, founded, mythologies, religions
«Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
although, Christianity, Christians, doubt, inspire, intolerant, intolerant of, religions, The One, tolerance, up to, up to now
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