"The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish."

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Source : James Luther Adams (1986). “The Prophethood of All Believers”, Beacon Press (MA)

James Luther Adams

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“I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I donâ€™t worry about the likeness of the result to some notion - some paradigm - of what music composition is supposed to be.”
“There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.”
“There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.”
“Islam is nothing but man's exclusive and total submission to God.”
“Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.”
“My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.”
“I am just a player trying to do what Im told.”
“Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?”

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