Affinity Quote by Julian Sanchez

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

— William James

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

— Nancy Pearcey

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of…

— Sidney Hook

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

— William James

“We believe in a particular order not because it is objectively true, but because believing in it enables us to cooperate effectively and forge…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general…

— Julian Sanchez

“Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of…

— William James

Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.

— Richard Saul Wurman

“What then is this harmony, this order that you maintain to have required for its establishment, what it needs not for its maintenance, the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

— H. L. Mencken