Edgar Quinet Quotes

Religions get lost as people do.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

Religion is such a path with people.

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.

The institution of religion is important.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

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.

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

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

My family is very religious.

Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

I don't have a religion, but I respect them.

Religion cannot and should not be understood by their texts alone. The lived history of a community of believers defines a religion; a great deal depends on how the custodians of the faith chose to interpret, defend and exploit or abuse its sacred texts.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....