Aldous Huxley Quotes

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always encouraged. A world ofsuperstition and folly have grown up around its forms and ceremonies. But the truth in it is one of the deep sentiments in human nature.

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously.

I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

I'm very interested in religion and different religions, and I know quite a lot about it. I love gospel music, and I love going to churches, but the one drawback is that I don't actually believe in God. And it is quite a handicap, you know.

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a great respect for religion, and the subject has always fascinated me, beyond almost all others (with a few exceptions, like evolution and paleontology).

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.