Indeed in view of its function religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

But even in the Christian religion much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Earth changes but thy soul and God stand sure.

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this I know what they mean I sympathize with them I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature throwing myself into things but now times have changed I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap just as the Congress does and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records my relationship with records my relationship with rock stars everything that surrounds it has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.

There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand they understand the job. But on the other hand it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't.

It is so much easier to be nice to be respectful to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.

I don't like my men to be too ornate. I like them to stand back and let their women shine and they should really wear the pants in the relationship.

Well I've had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they've been very very good to me. And I believe in their products I really do. I've used them for many many years.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship but we both stand by our opinions.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

I think if you're in a committed relationship unless you have some sort of an understanding monogamy is something that should exist.