Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Religion

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  • Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

    "Religion: A Dialogue" by Arthur Schopenhauer,
  • Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

  • Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.30, Publishdrive
  • Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.

    Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.358, Oxford University Press
  • A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.318, Simon and Schuster
  • Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.
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