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re�lig�ion (r�-l�j�en) noun
1.(a) Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers
regarded as creator and governor of the universe. (b) A personal or
institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship.
2. The life or condition of a person in a religious order.
3. A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a
spiritual leader.
4. A cause, a principle, or an activity pursued with zeal or
conscientious devotion.
**The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
religion (r�-l�j�en), a system of thought, feeling, and action shared
by a group that gives members an object of devotion; a code of ethics
governing personal and social conduct; and a frame of reference
relating individuals to their group and the universe. Usually,
religion concerns itself with what transcends the known, the natural,
or the expected; it is an acknowledgment of the extraordinary, the
mysterious, and the supernatural. The evolution of religion cannot be
precisely determined. In addition to the more elementary forms of
belief and practice, such as ANIMISM, ANCESTOR WORSHIP, totemism, and
SPIRITISM, there are the commonly termed higher religions, which
embody a principle of transcendence. These include POLYTHEISM, in
which there are many gods; DUALISM, which posits equally powerful
deities of good and evil; MONOTHEISM, in which there is a single god;
supratheism, in which the devotee participates in the religion through
a mystical union with the godhead; and PANTHEISM, in which the
universe is identified with God. Religions are also classifed as
revealed (i.e., by divine agency) or nonrevealed (i.e., the result of
human inquiry). JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, and ISLAM are revealed
religions, while Buddhist sects (where BUDDHA is recognized not as a
god but as an enlightened leader), BRAHMANISM, and TAOISM are
considered nonrevealed religions.
**The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia
If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that
everything in religion is true.
**Alain [�mile-Auguste Chartier] (1868-1951), French philosopher.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have
ever been scientifically systematized.
**Louis Aragon (1897-1982), French poet.
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but
morality touched by emotion.
**Matthew Arnold (1822-88), English poet, critic.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the
phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be
slaves on earth.
**Mikhail Bakunin (1814-76), Russian political theorist.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To
visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep
himself unspotted from the world.
**Bible: New Testament. James 1:27.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the
nature of the Unknowable.
**Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), U.S. author.
And lips say "God be pitiful,"
Who ne'er said, "God be praised."
**Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61), English poet.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least,
half infidelity.
**Edmund Burke (1729-97), Irish philosopher, statesman.
I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day. . .
**Lord Byron (1788-1824), English poet.
A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic
philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a
private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
**G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), British author.
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts
both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere
Philosophy;-nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are
symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded:
for then it would be mere History.
**Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English poet, critic.
Religion! what treasure untold
Resides in that heavenly word!
**William Cowper (1731-1800), English poet.
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if
you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities,
and find a chieftain in his own passions.
**Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), English statesman, author.
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not
find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm
of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of
imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality
and necessity.
**Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72), German philosopher.
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines
increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal
that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the
precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues
have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic
relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it
does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression
by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.
**Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychiatrist.
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual
idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of
its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to
that object.
**Northrop Frye (1912-91), Canadian literary critic.
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel
it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not
religion but fantasy or philosophy.
**George Gurdjieff (c. 1877-1949), Greek-Armenian religious teacher,
mystic.
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on
voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious
than any political organisation. For the latter makes use of violence,
the former-of the corruption of the will.
**Alexander Herzen (1812-70), Russian journalist, political thinker.
It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn
in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer
to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.
**Edward Hoagland (b. 1932), U.S. novelist, essayist.
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills
for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but
chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
**Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), English philosopher. Leviathan, pt. 3,
ch. 32 (1651).
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of
faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
**Eric Hoffer (1902-83), U.S. philosopher.
Give us a religion that will help us to live-we can die without
assistance.
**Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), U.S. author.
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are
among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the
sublimity of prayer.
**Victor Hugo (1802-85), French poet, dramatist, novelist.
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible
fooleries of magic and religion.... Dogs do not ritually urinate in
the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses
do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by
abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into
benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the
price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite
intelligent enough.
**Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British author.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude
which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker;
if sad, it must not scream or curse.
**William James (1842-1910), U.S. psychologist, philosopher.
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
**Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian satirist.
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute
what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
**Suzanne Lafollette (1893-1983), U.S. editor, author.
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one
together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never
complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing
modification.
**D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. Lawrence added, "So I
contend that true Socialism is religion; that honest, fervent politics
are religion; that whatever a man will labour for earnestly and in
some measure unselfishly is religion."
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to
me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't
come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall
suspect that you don't understand.
**C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), British author.
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is
tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favoured and cherished.
**Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), English historian.
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
**Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821), French diplomat, philosopher.
I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but innocence.
**Christopher Marlowe (1564-93), English dramatist, poet. Machiavel,
in The Jew of Malta, "Prologue." The lines are often modernized:
I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from
the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that
unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonised,
the religion cannot be healthy?
**Harriet Martineau (1802-76), English writer, social critic.
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
**Harriet Martineau (1802-76), English writer, social critic.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a
heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium
of the people.
**Karl Marx (1818-83), German political theorist, social philosopher.
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial
to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore
whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some
equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
**Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), English society figure,
letter writer.
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make
Gods by dozens.
**Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), French essayist.
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between
the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in
religious thought that we should seek consolation.
**G�rard de Nerval (1808-55), French novelist, poet.
>From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of
my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of
any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a
dream and a mockery.
**Cardinal John Newman (1801-90), English churchman, theologian.
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of
architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would
apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not
guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
**Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), U.S. theologian, historian.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must
wash my hands.
**Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher.
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have
as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as
many things as possible.
**Sean O'Casey (1884-1964), Irish dramatist.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none
that instructs him to be bad.
**Thomas Paine (1737-1809), Anglo-American political theorist, writer.
The Rights of Man, pt. 2, ch. 5 (1792). Shelley echoed this sentiment
in his Address to the Irish People (1812): "All religions are good
which make men good.".
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or
Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to
terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
**Thomas Paine (1737-1809), Anglo-American political theorist, writer.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
**Blaise Pascal (1623-62), French scientist, philosopher.
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from
an attempt to popularize art.
**Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic.
A maker of idols is never an idolater.
**Chinese Proverb
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you
must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
**Edgar Quinet (1803-75), French poet, historian, politician.
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that
claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not
violation of integrity.
**Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), Indian philosopher,
statesman.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative
notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other
ideas-uncertainty, progress, change-into crimes.
**Salman Rushdie (b. 1947), Indian-born British author.
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.
**Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher, mathematician.
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
**Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), French author
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of
story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of
religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even
apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach
in vain.
**George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we
trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which
can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
**Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English poet.
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which
human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.
**Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. essayist.
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a
concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which
itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
**Paul Tillich (1886-1965), German-born U.S. theologian.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain
that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in
times of equality.
**Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59), French social philosopher.
I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can
ever be religious-except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep
them shut by force.
**Mark Twain (1835-1910), U.S. author.
It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
**Mark Twain (1835-1910), U.S. author.
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of
life.
**John Updike (b. 1932), U.S. author, critic.
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
**Beatrice Potter Webb (1858-1943), British socialist, author.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record
of dead religions.
**Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author.
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
**Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian philosopher.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why
even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone
present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't
prevent it being a religious ceremony.
**Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian philosopher.
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