Rajneesh Quotes

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

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 too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.

Religion is all bunk.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

You seem much too intelligent to believe in God.

I don't see any god up here.

I still can't decide which is silliest; a person believing in a God who 'isn't there,' or a person offended by a God whom he doesn't believe exists.

Don't be misled by those who claim God doesn't exist, because He does.

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.

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.

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.