We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary. — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition. — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary. — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal religion is.… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent,… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
We're [humans] running great risks of doing things that will not be good for us. The cost can be very high indeed if we… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
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