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Richard Holloway

"The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right to a hearing by the value of what they say, and not by virtue of who is saying it. Today, authority has to earn respect by the intrinsic value of what it says, not by the force of its imposition."

Source : Richard Holloway (2000). “Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out Of Ethics”, p.31, Canongate Books

Richard Holloway

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“Literature is the garden of wisdom.”
“I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.”

Source : Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.
“So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.”

Source : "Edward Hopper". Book by Lloyd Goodrich, p. 164, 1971.
“When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.”
“After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures great and small to being the designer of the laws of nature, from which natural selection can unfold, to being perhaps just the chooser of the laws. By the time God's role has been so diminished, he becomes a bit like a constitutional monarch, presiding ceremonially but not having any more work to do. That's a place for God if it makes people comfortable to keep God as the presider over the universe. I suppose that is satisfying for many.”

Source : "Big Thinkers on Evolution". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.
“Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and stillness of soul. The enemy strives to destroy the peace of the soul, because he knows that when the soul is in turmoil it is more easily led to evil. But you must guard your peace.”
“As I child, I came to this idea with a horrified fascination. Once upon a time, I wasnâ€™t here. Before that, my parents werenâ€™t here. And before thatâ€¦”
“The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.”

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