Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
– AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupda
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- Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth. – AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupda
- A life based on [religious] faith is a life based on pure speculation, and speculation is, by its very definition, unsound. – Michael Vito Tosto
- The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate. – Franz Werfel
- No one is absolutely free from religion and philosophy, for the life we live is always under the influence of religion and philosophy! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. – Harold Holzer
- If by studying Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ one decides to surrender to Kṛṣṇa, he is immediately freed from all sinful reactions. – AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- To become free from sinful life, there is only simple method: if you surrender to Kṛṣṇa. That is the beginning of bhakti. – AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion – Francis Bacon
- Science without Philosophy leads to chaos. Philosophy without Science leads to nowhere. Only together they can construct a better world. – Abhijit Naskar
- Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy. – Scott OReilly
- Religion as a philosophy is superior to religion as a practice. – Daya Kudari
- Religion is not a book, it is a neurological sentiment. – Abhijit Naskar
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Speculation is a dangerous thing without any evidence to back it up. – Jane Casey
- I follow many great religions. Body is my temple. Love is my religion. Peace is my religion. Happiness is my religion. – Debasish Mridha
- A mother’s lap is the strongest hub and school of each religion. In other words, the mother breezes and waves the religion since she is the religion. – Ehsan Sehgal
- The one who can smile without an outer reason is a mental case for many, but the one who cannot -˜needs mental therapy! – Harrish Sairaman
- I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. – Baruch Spinoza
- Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? – Paul Gauguin
- If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance. – Amit Kalantri
- Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law. – Criss Jami
- A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all. – Philip Zaleski
- Not all the problems must be solved! Stick to this philosophy and you will save awful a lot of time! Stick to this philosophy! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it. – Lawrence M Krauss
- I understand the gist of your speculation,’ said Rhialto. ‘It is most likely nuncupatory. – Jack Vance
- There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. – Juan Gabriel Vsquez
- Scriptures may have grains of historical truth within them, but there is also ample hyperbole, speculation and mythology. – Armin Navabi
- …an’ there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel – Neil M Gunn
- Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation – Miguel Reynolds Brandao
- Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. – Edward Abbey
- Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it. – Criss Jami
- Make the mental physical, and the physical mental, and things will improve. – AM Homes
- It is not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness. – Joubert
- An idea is a mental spark, a mindset is a mental inferno – Danny Dover
- The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. – Reinhold Niebuhr
- There is no surer basis for fanaticism than bad history, which is invariably history oversimplified. – Diarmaid MacCulloch
- A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality. – GK Chesterton
- Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more. – Clarence Darrow
- Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt – CG Jung