People not only live by symbols, but die by them, as wars of religion and nationalism attest.
Religion Quotes
Religion is a page where believers and unbelievers share space. Shakespeare and Milton lead, but Robert Ingersoll and the biologist Jerry Coyne are close behind, and the sourced favourites lean sceptical: Bertrand Russell in Sceptical Essays (1928) on moralists and Hell, Bierce in 1911 calling religion a daughter of Hope and Fear.
Three entries are flagged. “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep” is credited to the missionary Jim Elliot, and the notes call it a paraphrase of the English clergyman Philip Henry (1631–1696). Newton’s remark that he could calculate the motions of heavenly bodies but not the madness of the people is disputed, and it is usually tied to the South Sea stock bubble. A line about Earth and Heaven credited to David Hare is flagged misattributed.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.
Secularity is a system that exists in the essence of religion.
In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.
I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion.