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«Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.»
Author: John Fowles
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
adherent, adherents, biological, credible, explanations, historical, sympathy
«We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.»
Author: Bertolt Brecht
| Keywords:
employs, encourages, historical, Human Relations, impulses, insights, relations, releases, theatre, the Action, The Field, transform
«Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
actual, assassin, efficiency, historical, human existence, Human potential, in terms of, tasks, The Assassin, The Assassins
«What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
accident, historical
«Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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accidents, background, gestures, historical, isolated, meditative
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