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> [Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-herberg/man-is-homo-religiosus-by-nature-religious-as-much-as-he-needs-food/)

[Will Herberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-herberg/)

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## More by Will Herberg

> [Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-herberg/modern-society-has-not-rid-itself-of-religion-as-it-fondly-believes/)

[Will Herberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-herberg/)

> [Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-herberg/man-is-homo-religiosus-by-nature-religious-as-much-as-he-needs-food/)

[Will Herberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-herberg/)

> [Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-herberg/ultimately-all-idolatry-is-worship-of-the-self-projected-and/)

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> [America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-herberg/america-seems-to-be-at-once-the-most-religious-and-the-most-secular/)

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> [“The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-herberg/the-attempt-made-in-recent-decades-by-secularist-thinkers-to/)

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