#religion

"So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?"

"إن عبادة الإله الواحد وحدها ستقرب الانسان من السلام الذي يتكلم عليه الجميع ولايفعل أحد شيئاً لتحقيقه."

"The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation."

"Living in a world such as this is like dancing on a live volcano."

"Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?"

"He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety."

"Maybe if I had to boil it down to one easy sentence, it would be this: I believe in evolution, and I believe in God. I just haven't worked out the details yet."

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."

"In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People."(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918)"

"All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words."

"Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives."

"Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light."

"To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune."

"As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples."

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."

"Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education."

"When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die."

"The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs."

"Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future."

"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."