30 Best philosophy quotes against religion

1. A cult is a religion with no political power.

2. To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

3. He who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against;.

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

5. Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

6. Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

7. All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

8. Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

9. No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

10. Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

11. The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

12. Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

13. The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

14. My religion is to live - and die - without regret.

15. Treaty with Tripoli, Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;.

16. God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.

17. The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.

18. The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

19. A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

20. Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

21. [O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy.

22. Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk.

23. It's better to have a million small religions with each one containing a great truth. Than one great religion containing a million small truths.

24. Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence.

25. Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.

26. The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

27. It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.

28. There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.

29. Philosophy is not a spectator sport.

30. Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.

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