In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.Simone Weil
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.Simone Weil
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.Plutarch
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.Michel de Montaigne
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.Arthur Schopenhauer
