Sarah Silverman Quotes

I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.

Scientology is completely irrelevant to any of the talks that have been given to me.

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

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.

I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.

I'm not particularly into the formal, political side of faith, although I am spiritual and I do have a faith. But 'Strictly Come Dancing' is my religion.

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

I am not against it. But I am suspicious of all forms of New Age spirituality, and religion in general.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

Religion is something that is very well intentioned, for all intents and purposes, for everyone around the world, but sometimes it can start to get warped.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and methods. I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife; and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can't bring myself to resent it. I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I'm afraid, the reverse. It doesn't seem sufficient to sustain one in life's rigorous moments. Perhaps I shall embrace Islam. Its standards for poetry seem very high.

Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind.

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.