Charles Simonyi Quotes

We lack rituals in this modern world.

Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual.

I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.

I do love the idea of ritual.

Rituals are important.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

My religion lies in my composition.

I don't let my religious world get too complicated.

I am more spiritual than religious.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.

If you're raised Methodist, Catholicism is a bit of a workout. It's sort of like you're up, you're down, you're up, you're down. It's a continual hokey-pokey.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government. 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 act against the liberty of his fellow-men.

Religion is a collective insanity.

Religion is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses.

If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve its own interests.

Ageless ritual is very good.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.