Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

A lot of the beliefs we have are based on exaggeration, misconception and opinions imposed on us by other people.

A superstitious belief which embraces an error keeps the possibility open that the truth may come to arouse it; but when the truth is there, and the superstitious mode of apprehending it transforms it into a lie, no saving awakening is possible.

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

Theology is a superstition — Humanity a religion.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

"Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.

We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science.

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

Most people are living on an illusion based on someone else's beliefs.