Salman Rushdie Quotes

The interesting part of my spiritual life is studying as much as you can. Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism and Shamanism and Judaism, Christianity - you try to learn what the precepts are, what the religion is, and ultimately, it's based in the same thought, it's based in the same outcome, you know.

I am a deeply spiritual and religious person both privately and publicly.

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

People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.

I love religion.

I suppose I've always had a very genuine curiosity about religion. I loved the atmosphere of churches, the ethos; I adored Evensong.

Humanity is the child of religion.

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

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

All the religions are super funny to me.

Human beings are religious animals.

I'm not religious. I would say I'm more spiritual than religious.

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

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

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

I am more spiritual than religious.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.

I know crowds of people who go to church and the synagogue who aren't religious.

I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.

I don't think of myself as a spiritual person.