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.
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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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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.
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A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
- Born: February 22, 1788
- Died: September 21, 1860
- Occupation: Philosopher