Leonora Carrington Quotes

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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.

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

Religion is all bunk.

One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency.

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

… religion is poison

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

I can't really sit around and talk with people who believe that the Bible is the way it happened, because that's man-made. I'm a writer, too; that's how I look at the Bible. Like, 'I could've written a better version than that,' you know? At least a more interesting one, and then maybe more people would go to church. I could definitely do a revamp.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

I'm not really into religion.

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

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

All the religions are super funny to me.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

Human beings are religious animals.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.