#secular

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It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.


Robert Hughes


#dedicated #rites #secular #travel

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.


Jimmy Carter


#affairs #against #any #attract #bad

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 capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.


Thomas Frank


#back #behold #bits #capital #certain

Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight.


Mustafa Kemal Atatürk


#inspirational #religion #secularism #inspirational

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.


Yann Martel


#art #background #beyond #bounds #certainly

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.


Roy Moore


#both #church #god #government #meant

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.


Chaim Potok


#danny #element #encounters #freudian #heart

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.


Dennis Prager


#muslim #muslim world #religious #secular #threatened

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.


Kurt Vonnegut


#atheism #humanism #secularism #humans

All my moral and intellectual being is penetrated by an invincible conviction that whatever falls under the dominion of our senses must be in nature and, however exceptional, cannot differ in its essence from all the other effects of the visible and tangible world of which we are a self-conscious part. The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is—marvels and mysteries acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would almost justify the conception of life as an enchanted state. No, I am too firm in my consciousness of the marvelous to be ever fascinated by the mere supernatural which (take it any way you like) is but a manufactured article, the fabrication of minds insensitive to the intimate delicacies of our relation to the dead and to the living, in their countless multitudes; a desecration of our tenderest memories; an outrage on our dignity.


Joseph Conrad


#intelligence