Johan Cruyff Quotes

What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological roles to fulfill. You might not want it to be a religion based on your own experience but that's like wanting to clean up your dreams

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

Everyone in Spain follows the church: half with a candle, the other half with a club.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.

I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

I've got a statue of St. Francis in my front yard, and I'm not even a practicing Catholic.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

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

I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

I don't believe in curses. I believe in God.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority

In matters of religion it is very easy to deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.

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

You have but one method to avoid the tempest that threatens you. Receive priests, who will teach you the Christian religion, embrace it, and adore the Cross; otherwise I will pursue you everywhere, and God shall decide whether you or I be master of Egypt.

Don’t get too wrapped up in the flag because every flag is superseded by the cross.

[Religious] superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.