H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

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

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

I think people can believe in anything.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

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

Religion's war against fringe beliefs is not a contest of rational and irrational. It is a contest between different fantasy systems, one having more political and financial clout than the others and, therefore, able to advertise itself into respectability.

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

Science and religion cannot come into conflict… unless some one excites strife in them out of conceit and desire to show off one's ingenuity

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

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.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.