"Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon."

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Source : Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

Jacques Maritain

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“It's always been strange to me that someone can say they're a vampire fan. I'm not a non-fan, but it's such an unusual thing to be a fan of. That's like saying, "I love zombie movies! I just love 'em! They're my favorite!" That's more of a psychological problem than being an actual fan.”
“There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.”
“Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?”
“There were certain elements of the healing process I could not capture. And even if I was right in the science, I could be wrong in the spirit.”
“History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.”
“The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white.”
“I lowered the gun but didnâ€™t holster it. Not just yet. She could turn out to be psychotic. Or a door-to-door salesperson.”
“Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.”

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