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Religion Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
- Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
- Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
- No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
- Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
- The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a…
- Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
- In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till…
- Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
- I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
- We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
- Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting…
- I consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race.
- Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
- As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
- I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike…
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