Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted
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It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
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The life of a religious might be compared to the building of a cathedral once a firm foundation has been laid, the building rises slowly.
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If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab
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By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave
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The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational - the powers of reason are s
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Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
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The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.
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The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion
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High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life
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The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both
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The cult of the jellyfish is no less an imposition of a religious movement<br/>than is the cult of the dinosaur. When designing a methodology it is<br/>undoubtedly far easier to construct a system that discourages individual<br/>differences, than it is to construct a system that that leverages and<br/>encourages them, but that does not mean that a methodology designed for<br/>an array of idealized entities will be the most productive, successful,<br/>or rewarding one. Choosing a cult methodology to be applied to a professional<br/>class is often an economic one, treating individuality as undesirable reduces<br/>the professional to the proletariat, seen as less expensive and readily<br/>replaceable.
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My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as laws of nature
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The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
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A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution
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This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief
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