Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation philosophy religion.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

I almost got a psychology degree I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion epistomology and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

When I'm not writing I read loads of fiction but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy religion science history social or cultural studies.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

It is then by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy that we can by checking them as we go along and comparing them trace out finally the body that produced them.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Religion and philosophy philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

To become a popular religion it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

No philosophy no religion has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

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.

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.

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.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life by indifference by philosophy and by religion.

Generally speaking the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.

There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.

Individual psychotherapy - that is engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient modest and a perceptive listener rather than a talker and advice-giver.

Words without power is mere philosophy.