Franz Marc Quotes

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

Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is to say, Universal.

Religions are, for the most part, bad. But religion is not.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

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.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

God save us from religion.

Religion is all bunk.

Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.