"In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware"

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Source : Paul Tillich (2012). “Systematic Theology”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

Paul Tillich

#Honesty Quotes #Humble Quotes #Thoughtful Quotes

“Now, I'm mostly a beer man. When I drink hard liquor, it usually doesn't end the best, so I keep it chill with beer.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When a man and a woman give themselves to each other in an act of marital love, they can know the love of Christ as no one else can know it.”
“Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.”
“The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.”
“Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.”

Source : Shan Sa (2009). “Empress: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins
“There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest.”
“I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.”
“The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all of this,makes man seem important,vital to the universe. immortal in some ways”

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