All Robert Neelly Bellah Quotes
- Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. Birth
- However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child… Both
- The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing. Disturbing
- While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say they… Best
- We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition. Competition
- We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering… Ancestor
- That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by… Acquisition
- ...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his… Acts