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religions
«Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable»
Author: Gore Vidal
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
aspects, explain, inexplicable, make sense, religions, senseless, sprang, terrifying
«Religions are the cradles of despotism.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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cradled, cradles, despotism, From the Cradle, religions
«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.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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ascetic, ascetics, condemn, condemning, drive, drive in, has-been, history, pleasures, power, religions, seek, sense, The Vice, throughout, vice
«Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Immortality,
Religion
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immortality, nearly, religions
«Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Persecution
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by law, established, established religion, feature, marked, original, persecution, persecutions, religions, strongly
«There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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destroy, enough, In the, is not, religion, religions, Religions of the world, there, there is, the world, world
«Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Faith,
Human Nature,
Life cycle,
Science,
Truth
| Keywords:
dead, die, proved, record, religions, science, science and religion, The Records
«Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Religion
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alike, fables, founded, mythologies, religions
«Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
although, Christianity, Christians, doubt, inspire, intolerant, intolerant of, religions, The One, tolerance, up to, up to now