Desiderius Erasmus

“You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn”. –Desiderius Erasmus

Philo

“A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial”. –Philo

Immanuel Kant

“Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee”. –Immanuel Kant

Henry Liddon

“The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance”. –Henry Liddon

John Updike

“Like water, blood must run or grow scum”. –John Updike

Theodore Dreiser

“If I were to personally define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance”. –Theodore Dreiser

Apuleius

“Familiarity breeds contempt, but privacy excites interest”. –Apuleius

Ingmar Bergman

“The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God’s silence”. –Ingmar Bergman

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“They think democracy — I used to say ‘damn the democracy’, because it’s not a stable government”. –Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

eden ahbez

“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see, it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters”. –eden ahbez

Kabir

“Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive prophets, when critically examined, turn out to be false”. –Kabir

Pythagoras

“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil”. –Pythagoras

Shams Tabrizi

“There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much”. –Shams Tabrizi

Zoroaster

“A reflective, contented mind is the best possession”. –Zoroaster

Confucius

“To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous”. –Confucius

J.D. Salinger

“The religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world”. –J.D. Salinger

Shunryu Suzuki

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few”. –Shunryu Suzuki

Sri Aurobindo

“All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion”. –Sri Aurobindo

Arthur C. Clarke

“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now”. –Arthur C. Clarke

James A. Michener

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home”. –James A. Michener

L. Ron Hubbard

“You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion”. –L. Ron Hubbard

Richard Burton

“The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself”. –Richard Burton

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“I have no religion and at times I wish all religions to the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth, and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-man”. –Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Thomas Paine

“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be true”. –Thomas Paine

Anton LaVey

“Every religion in the world that has destroyed people is based on love”. –Anton LaVey