Walter Kaufmann Quotes

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

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Religion is man-made. Every religion says my 'God is the best.'

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

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.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.

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

I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.

Religion is all bunk.

Religion is an irrational construct.

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.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

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

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

Religion is a collective insanity.

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....

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.

There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.