Secular Quotes

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The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth… — Louis Mackey
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers… — Theodore Roosevelt
Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod," or the word… — Harold B. Lee
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old,… — H. L. Mencken
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith… — Leon Wieseltier
Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own moral and ethical… — Deborah Feldman
Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private… — Thomas Frank
The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get… — Newt Gingrich
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer,… — Alan Dershowitz
I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would… — Alan Dershowitz
The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in other countries -… — Alan Dershowitz
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a… — Henry Van Dyke
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar… — Jesse Eisenberg
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed… — Luke Ford
The road to the sacred leads through the secular. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams… — Tom Hiddleston
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens
The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air… — Christopher Hitchens

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