Will Herberg quotes
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“Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.”
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“Man is ***** religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.”
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“America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.”
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“Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.”
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“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
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“The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.”
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“Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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