Religious Institution Quotes

“But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the lifetime of one man, and thereby to make a period of time fruitless in the progress of mankind toward improvement, thus working to the disadvantage of posterity - that is absolutely forbidden. For himself (and only for a short time) a man may postpone enlightenment in what he ought to know, but to renounce it for posterity is to injure and trample on the rights of mankind.”
― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

“[D]ie amtlichen Gottesmänner, [welche] als Kinder eines vernünftigen Zeitalters eine recht menschliche Angst davor haben, von exaltierten und hysterischen Anhängern bloßgestellt zu werden.”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities