Guillermo del Toro Quotes

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of Religion, that we shall discover Truth, Reason, and Morality. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from the remedies which nature prescribes; far from curing, it only aggravates, multiplies, and perpetuates them.

I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.

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

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Human beings are fascinating with religion and stories about not dying. Or dying and being brought back to life. I think it's just part of our make up.

The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.

All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

Zombies are the new vampire.

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

We monsters are necessary to nature also.

...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one - probably a child - who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.

When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but if there were and so tomorrow we woke up to find no more believers on earth, no more devout Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, why then, sure the beauty of the stories would be a thing we could focus on because they wouldn't be dangerous any more, they would become capable of compelling the only belief that leads to truth, that is, the willing, disbelieving of the reader in a well-told tale.

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.

I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.