Animism Quote by Holly Estil Cunningham

“there is great danger that modern culture, progressing in its anti-supernaturalistic course, will be stirred against the steadfastness of believers and attempt to accomplish…

— Herman Bavinck

“The greater part of mankind are naturally apt to be affirmative and dogmatical in their opinions; and while they see objects only on one…

— David Hume

“We must face the fact that society is founded on intolerance. [. . .] We may prate of toleration as we will; but society…

— George Bernard Shaw

“as the mass of mankind remains always at about the same pitch of misery, it never assents long to any one remedy, but is…

— Christopher Hitchens

“But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on a well-constructed train of thought with his…

— Thomas Mann

“Religion is the nurture of backbiting tales vomited by authoritarians, eaten by subalterns.”

— Jahanshah Safari

“The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.”

— Sherman A. Jackson

“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon…

— William Hazlitt

“The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history,…

— William James

“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.”

— Will Durant

“When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays…

— Abhijit Naskar

“The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than…

— Sigmund Freud