Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication is the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, 'it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.'

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from w…

Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

'I fear God and if He is there for me, who else can be against me.' (10 June 2005, Explaining his refusal to have police protection or bodyguards, despite thre…

It is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.[2]

In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion a…