Howard Bloom Quotes

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Fear first made gods in the world.

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

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

Human beings are religious animals.

Fear created the first gods in the world.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

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?

There's something called religion, and it was invented a long time ago by people who felt very out of control with their lives, who didn't know... why the sun always rose over the mountains.

Humanity is the child of religion.

I think the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods.

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

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true.

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.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.