Identity Quote by Brad S. Gregory

“We need to be virtually bludgeoned into detachment from our daily lives, our habits and mental laziness, which conceal from us the strangeness of…

— Eugène Ionesco

“What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the strivings of the human race over…

— Steven Pinker

“In this environment, the development of modern consciousness was experienced not as an evolution from a previous way of understanding the world, but rather…

— Christopher Clark

“And humanism—that transcendent vision that spans centuries and religions in its celebration of reason, responsibility, art, and examined lives—has been tossed out like old…

— Jean Hegland

“Here is where Taylor locates the most significant shift in the post-’60s West: while ideals of tolerance have always been present in the modern…

— James K.A. Smith

“Although we typically take our cultural worldview for granted, it is actually a fragile human construction that people spend great energy creating, maintaining, and…

— Sheldon Solomon

“Our estrangement from nature and the unconscious became entrenched roughly two thousand years ago, during the shift from the Age of the Great God…

— Terence McKenna

“Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. We extend this into…

— Walter Lippmann

“[F]or several thousand years we have been obsessed with a false humility—on the one hand, putting ourselves down as mere creatures" who came into…

— Alan W. Watts

This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process…

— Curtis White

“Nowadays, the tendency to be preoccupied with having, at the expense of losing touch with the dimension of being, is becoming ever more pronounced.…

— Stephen Batchelor

“the sacred reality is not simply transcendent, “out there,” but is enshrined in every single human being, who must, therefore, be treated with absolute…

— Karen Armstrong