#religion
"Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees."
React to this quote
More by Voltaire
See allResonant Thoughts
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings cont…"
— Hillary Clinton"Since the violet rays through the objective of the theodolite telescope have a shorter focal length than th…"
— Joseph von Fraunhofer"What in Calvin had been a qualified concession to practical exigencies appeared in some of his later follow…"
— R. H. Tawney"...that shapeless, formless, fibreless mass of platitudes which in official cant is called "unsectarian rel…"
— Robert Gascoyne-Cecil"The Bible is a progressive revelation of God, and war must be judged by the higher revelation of Jesus and …"
— Kirby Page"Primitive man... rushes to the satisfactory conclusion that that power must be itself infinite; that he, ma…"
— Karl Pearson
Related Thinkers
Related Topics
Deep Dives
- Baruch Spinoza on religion
- Friedrich Nietzsche on religion
- Thomas Carlyle on religion
- Aristotle on religion
- Immanuel Kant on religion
- Ludwig Wittgenstein on religion
- Michel de Montaigne on religion
- Epictetus on religion
- Baruch Spinoza on philosophy
- Baruch Spinoza on knowledge
- knowledge & Beauty
- knowledge & Change