"Religion is a defense against a religious experience."

-- Carl Jung

"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it."

-- John Adams

"All religions pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance."

-- V.V. Rozanov

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul; with all one's goodness and righteousness."

-- Albert Einstein

"God has no religion."

-- Gandhi

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."

-- G.K. Cheserton

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"And so, while religious people are not generally mad, their core beliefs absolutely are."

-- Sam Harris

"To be good and to do good -- that is the whole of religion."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"The lovers of God have no religion but god alone."

-- John Dunne

"Religion is what the individual does with his own solitude."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

"Like a river damned by its own ice, religion is held back by its congealed formulations."

-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

"It too often happens that the religiously disposed are in the same degree intellectually deficient."

-- John Henry Newman

"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."

-- Karl Marx

"The thorn of too much religion can take the beauty out of life's most precious rose."

-- Nancy Swan Drew