"It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion."
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."
Dalai Lama on Religion"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
Mahatma Gandhi on Religion"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
C. S. Lewis on Religion"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
C. S. Lewis on Religion"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
Albert Camus on Religion"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age."
"Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age."
"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."