Daniel Dennett Quotes

Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values , and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society.

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

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

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.

Religion is the anchor of morality for most people.

A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

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

Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

If you think about the great religions that have united large parts of humankind, people believe gods are very concrete - there is an angry old man in the sky, and if I do something wrong, he will punish me.

My mother was sort of mildly religious, but the rest of us, you know, we didn't really have it forced on us.

From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.

Hinduism is not a codified religion.