Quotations on Spirituality, Science and Religion





1.    We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.               Goethe   
2.    The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.                                                                 Albert Einstein
3.    The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.                                                          Cicero             
4.    God gives every bird his worm, but 'he'  does not throw it into the nest.                                                                              Swedish proverb
5.    The best mind altering drug is the truth.                                                                                                                                    Lily  Tomlin  

6.    The soul never thinks without a mental picture.                                                                                                                        Aristotle
7.    Necessity is the mother of inventions. So necessity is the mother of thinking.                                                                  Anonymous
8.    He was a wise man who  invented God.                                                                                                                                    Plato    
9.    A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to
       go, but ought to be.                                                                                                                                                                          Rosalynn Carter    
10.  Without  integrity  all God's gifts are bitter.                                                                                                                                  Anonymous

11. Truth has to fall on fertile soil.                                                                                                                                                       Paula  D'Arcy    
12. There are no new sins;  the old ones just get more publicity.                                                                                                Anonymous
13. The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing.                                  Susan  Howatch  
14. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the                                             
       seashore, diverting myself in, now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while                                       
       the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.                                                                                                         Isaac  Newton           
15. Medicine in the hands of a fool is poison, just as poison becomes medicine in the hands of the wise.           Giacomo  Casanova

16. There are victories of the soul and spirit. Somtimes, even if you lose you win.                                                                  Elie  Wiesel   
17. Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They are                                              
      for breathing.                                                                                                                                                                                     P.D.James          
18. Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.                                                                   Madeleine L' Engle  
19. Everyone makes and carries within him his own 'heaven' or 'hell', and you don't need to die to go there.                   L.E.R.D. Zubillaga   
20. When Thoreau the naturalist was close to death, he was visited by a very pious aunt who asked: "Henry,                                               
      have you made your peace with God?".  " I did not know"  was Thoreau's answer, " that  we had ever quarelled."    ( From the book  
                                                                                                                                                      Everyday Jokes  By  Hind Pocket Books)

21.  A true naturalist is in tune with 'nature', or otherwise called God                                                                                          Anonymous.
22.  Spirituality means naturality or naturalness. The closer one is to nature, the closer that person is to the 'spirit'                                
       of nature.                                                                                                                                                                                          Anonymous
23.  Rivers know this:  there is no hurry. We shall get there one day.                                                                                          A. A.  Milne            
24.  I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong god.                                                                           T. S. Eliot       
         
25.  Beware  of being too rational. In a country that is insane, the integrated man does not become king. He gets                                            
       lynched.                                                                                                                                                                                             Aldous Huxley

26.  Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.                         M. Luther King Jr.
27.  What is surrounded by uncertainty can not be truth.                                                                                                                Richard P. Feyman
28.  Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different  
        roads, so long as we reach the same goal, wherein is the cause for quarrelling?                                                          M. K. Gandhi
29.  There is only one religion, though there are hundred versions of it.                                                                                     Bernard Shaw
30.  The candles are many, but the light is one.                                                                                                                                Rumi                

31.  All religions were true and also that all had some error in them.                                                                                           M. K. Gandhi  
32.  Men never do evil so completely  and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.                                        Blaise Pascal
33.  Remain even-minded at all times, even amidst profit or loss, pleasure or pain, sickness or health, victory or                                            
       defeat, praise or criticism.                                                                                                                                                              Bhagavad  Gita      
34.  Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.                                                                                                                         Bernard  Shaw        
35.  The most silent of all killers is communalism, and the worst of these is religious communalism.                              Anonymous

36.  Science without religion is blind and religion without science is lame.                                                                               A. Einstein             
37.  Religion is an opiate.                                                                                                                                                                      Karl Marx
38.  Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it , no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with                                               
       your own reason and your own common sense.                                                                                                                      Buddha                 
39.  In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.         Galileo Galilei          
40.  Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate                                     
       into itself natural science: there will be one science.                                                                                                               Karl Marx   

41.  Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.                                                                                                 Immanuel  Kant       
42.  An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by thrilling life.                                                                                                                  Aldous Huxley     
43.  Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, yet he indeed is the noble victor who
       conquers himself.                                                                                                                                                                            Dhammapada  
44.  I don't have a religion. I believe in a God.  I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation
       of  the supernatural                                                                                                                                                                          J. Aniston  
45.  The best religion is the most tolerant.                                                                                                                                Delphine De  Girardin

46.  The miracle is not to fly in the air or to walk on water, but to walk on the Earth.                                                                 Chinese proverb
47.  The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is of the
       unknown                                                                                                                                                                                            H. P. Lovecraft.       
48.  All our science measured against reality is  primitive and childlike and yet it is the most precious thing                    Humphrey  Davy
       we have.
49.  When did I realise I was God? I was praying and suddenly realised I was talking to myself.                                         Peter  O' Toole   
50.  Teach, educate and empower should be the ways of a social reformer.                                                                            Anonymous  

51.  Manage change before it manages you                                                                                                                                     Encyclopedia.com
52.  Imagine creating an element you can drink and use for cooking and washing; swim in, ski and sail on;                                                
       in which all kinds of living things exist; that can form drops, waves, snowflakes and ice cubes and change a                                             
      desert into a paradise. Who would have thought of it, except an almighty God.                                                                  Reader's Digest.        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Oct. 1990

53.  Mysteries are what mystics are after; what they bring out are symbols, misty words and myths.                                  (Anonymous)

54. Any religion which is about 200 years old in one region, is as good as no-religion, but simply
a group of traditional
      or familial or communal and ritualistic people.                                                                                                                          (Anonymous)




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