Beliefs and values Quote by Christopher Clark

“I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym…

— Paul Valéry

“modern era of multivalent "secularity" and "exclusive humanism" in which we live, a shift from the premodern, socially embedded "porous self" to the meaning-constructing…

— Brad S. Gregory

“This feeling that--contrary to the consciously philosophic and historical conception which proclaims unceasing and peaceful progress--one is experiencing a last brief, irretrievable intellectual prime…

— Gyorgy Lukács

I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

“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

“Let us call this quality the Original Mind. This mind looked at the world more directly—not through words and received ideas. It was flexible…

— Robert Greene

“Henceforward our struggle against the things of this world became harder, because it is now no longer in our power to enjoy intelligible realities…

— Nikodimos

“The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure.”

— C.G. Jung

“In this thought world, we experience only our concepts, beliefs, stereotypes and prejudices: a run-down building, an old man, an irritating family member, a…

— John C. Robinson

“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of…

— George Eliot

“So much of what we imagine to be the testimony of reason or the clear and unequivocal evidence of our senses is really only…

— David Bentley Hart

We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let…

— Jon Anderson