The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.