Alain de Botton Quotes

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.

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.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

What does that mean - you're religious? Everybody is religious.

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

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

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

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

I don't think you need religion.

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

Religion is all bunk.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

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

Religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

Religion is such a path with people.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.