Anton Chekhov Quotes, Love Quotes, Religious Quotes

I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Religious Quotes , Example Quotes

My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Religious Quotes , Ethical Principles Quotes

I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Religious Quotes , Writing Quotes

To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Religious Quotes , Sweat Quotes

There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Religious Quotes , Important Quotes

It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Religious Quotes , Thinking Quotes

An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Religious Quotes , Atheist Quotes

The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

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...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.

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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Religious Quotes , Commitment Quotes

Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to think that morality is an attribute only of religion. We can imagine two types of spirituality: one tied to religion, while the other arises spontaneously in the human heart as an expression of love for our neighbors and a desire to do them good.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Religious Quotes , Mistake Quotes

Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.

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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Religious Quotes , People Quotes

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Religious Quotes , Solitude Quotes

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Religious Quotes , Children Quotes

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Religious Quotes , Humility Quotes

Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Wise Quotes , Religious Quotes

.. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There is no room in this for the divinization of a nation, of a class, let alone of an individual. Are we not all children of one father, as it is said in religious language?

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Religious Quotes , Children Quotes

I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.

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