Erich Fromm Quotes

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.

I regard religion itself as quite unnecessary for a nation's life; science is far above superstition; and what is religion, Buddhism or Christianity, but superstition, and therefore a possible source of weakness to a nation?

Religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

The basis of religion is independent of science. Theology, not religion, is the antithesis to science

In my own life, my science and my religion are separate.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

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.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.