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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.


Francis Bacon Sr.

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SIR FRANCIS BACON A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds a...
FRANCIS BACON A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringe...
FRANCIS BACON A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's ...
FRANCIS BACON God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, t...
FRANCIS BACON No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Ath...
ANNIE BESANT No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Ath...
ANNIE BESANT Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which...
FRANCIS BACON Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
FRANCIS BACON Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different...
EDDIE IZZARD In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t diffe...
VIRCHAND GANDHI The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
RICHARD K. MORGAN Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations int...
ISAAC NEWTON Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...
FRANCIS BACON Any religion or philosophy, which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philo...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Heidegger’s philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, but a description of the world from which Go...
WILLIAM BARRETT The mind is a powerful thing, it takes philosophy and twists it to fact. All religion depends upon o...
EVAN PASK The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Reg...
DONALD MORGAN This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, ...
DALAI LAMA XIV When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people s...
JOHN LEWIS But to rationalize faith is not to admit the superiority of philosophy over religion.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which...
FRANCIS BACON SR. Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitut...
SIDNEY HOOK Buddhism is a philosophy, rather than a religion,
SHERRY DAVIS A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to paupery; but depth in that study brings him about agai...
THOMAS FULLER If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
FRANCIS BACON I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's...
A. S. BYATT To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy
W. R. INGE “There came philosophy then religion then logic. There will come logic then religion then philosop...
EPHDAN The post-modernists claim everything is relative. Nothing can be known for certain. The ultimate rel...
JUSTIN STECKBAUER When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, an...
BLAISE PASCAL I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact...
ISAAC ASIMOV If God appears to me when I die I shall say: 'You've proved your existence, but not your worth'
CHARLIE JAMES I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness �...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Mathematics is logical. Religion is magical. Philosophy is radical.
EPHDAN Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
DAVID HUME Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous
DAVID HUME I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
BARUCH SPINOZA I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion
BARUCH SPINOZA Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistak...
EMMETT F. FIELDS To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE Color comes to life when you add a little love.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cos...
G. K. CHESTERTON We have a very different philosophy than FAIR. Their philosophy is to litigate. Our philosophy is to...
ANTHONY PINZONE But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond ti...
ALFRED DE VIGNY I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for wit...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
AL GOLDSTEIN Challenging our sacred beliefs is both frightening and difficult, but we must do it. It is wrong to ...
DANIEL JONES The claim that Religious believers have a happier outlook on life than Religious skeptics is like sa...
DAVID J AIELLO JR. Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arb...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as muc...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as...
GURDJIEFF Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philo...
CRISS JAMI No religion, no political party, no organization, movement or philosophy has a monopoly on truth.
E.R. ROCK Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of huma...
MARK R. LEVIN As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. K...
ROBERT J. FUREY Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
DAVID LYNCH From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of scienc...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
Every religion or every philosophy is an outcome of the human search for liberation.
LOBSANG TENZIN Religion is lovable because it is loved. Philosophy is loved because it is lovable.
ARISTOTLE Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why
ERIC GILL Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
ERIC GILL My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. L...
B. R. AMBEDKAR This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our ow...
DALAI LAMA XIV This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our ...
DALAI LAMA This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our o...
DALAI LAMA This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our ...
DALAI LAMA This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our ow...
DALAI LAMA Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no s...
JAMES REDFIELD The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
DEAN INGE We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manu...
DAVID CRONENBERG Consciousness brought philosophy, but that is because may be philosophy has always existed.
EPHDAN To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religi...
GORE VIDAL A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism
DION FORTUNE And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and th...
JOHN DONNE belief is the death of intelligence.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
LUDWIG VON MISES Philosophies of the world: Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it West...
APURVA GAGLANI No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head ...
TERRY PRATCHETT If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an...
WOODY ALLEN It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN If you're teaching intelligent design in a religion or philosophy class, that is fine. Just leave it...
ERIC CHRISTENSEN Philosophy is nice word, people would like to read on it, I feel rather reading book on philosophy o...
MANISH LAKHANI Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the ...
SAM HARRIS I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about re...
B. F. SKINNER Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
BLAISE PASCAL I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can ex...
AMISH TRIPATHI The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables phi...
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FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
FRANCIS BACON States are great engines moving slowly.
FRANCIS BACON They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...
FRANCIS BACON Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...
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