Panos Cosmatos Quotes

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

No, I'm not a scientologist.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

Religion is an irrational construct.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

There would never have been an infidel had there never been a priest.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

… religion is poison

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

Magic happens, see. It's just like on those bumper stickers, the ones that say, 'Miracles Happen', or 'Jesus Happens'. I never really took those too seriously. I mean, they're bumper stickers. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. Miracles? Right. Jesus? Maybe. But magic?

Someday I want to really talk about religion and blind faith. I explored astrologers, palmistry etcetra at length till I believed it was a scam. Even in '3 Idiots' I take a dig at them.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.