"I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith"

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Source : "A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large".

Mortimer Adler

#Religious Quotes #Blind Quotes #Individual Quotes

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.”
“We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.”
“I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.”
“Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap. It's like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here. And I can't get back to the right hole. I'm not going to be able to get this section back to the right hole - so I'm just going to have to cut it.”
“Each way means loneliness -- and communion.”
“Think that it's fun, that you're guided, and that all is well. Think that there's time, that life is easy, and that the best is yet to come. Think that the reasons that elude you will one day catch up, that the lessons that stumped you will one day bring joy, and that the sorrows that have crippled you will soon give you wings. Think that you're important, that you cannot fail, and that happiness always returns. And think that you're beautiful.”
“Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.”
“I am a free man but only partially so relative to other people in society. Why do I say "partially free"? Because there is only one country in the world that denies me entrance because of who my father was and that is the United States.”

Source : Source: harvardpolitics.com

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