“A lot more people are saying they’re spiritual but not religious — but what does that really mean? I would say sports and movement are the most oft way we access a spiritual experience and transcend our ego, but they’re the least discussed and least understood.”— Kristen Ulmer, nytimes.com
“All significant concepts of the modern state are secularized theological concepts.”— Carl Schmitt, amazon.com
“The modern person seems generally unable to imagine how large a significance those components of our consciousness rooted in religious beliefs have actually had upon culture, national character, and the organization of life.”— Max Weber, amazon.com
“Decentralization won’t free us of hierarchies, it will establish new ones. Instead of being ruled by the politicians and religious leaders, we’ll be ruled by the technologists and their code.”— Zach LeBeau, medium.com
“You’re gonna save all the souls. You’re gonna get everyone in one place, you’re gonna teach them all the same things. There can be one morality, one set of rules. Imagine!”— Dave Eggers, amazon.com
“Jesus is the Rock of Ages for both Marxism and its less vulgar child, Political Correctness in American colleges and universities, today, even though Jesus’s latter-day ducklings would gag on the very thought.”— Tom Wolfe, amazon.com
“The character, Cole, declares, we can invent an app, start a blog, sell things online—words repeated so often they might as well be a prayer: Give-us-this-day-our-daily-bread-for-we-can-invent-an-app-start-a-blog-sell-things-online.”— Ayesha Siddiqi, thenewinquiry.com
“We treat anything published in a journal as if it's from Moses coming down the mountaintop with a set of stone tablets. Journals were never meant to be sources for the 24-hour news cycle: they are meant to be a forum for discussion among scientists.”— Gary Schwitzer, news.fastcompany.com
“Education was the new god, and educated men the new plantation masters.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“College is corrupt as the Catholic church was 500 years ago. They’re charging people more and more. You have this system of indulgences, you have this priestly (professorial class) that doesn't do much work. And then you basically tell people that if you get a diploma you’re saved, otherwise you go…”— Peter Thiel, bloomberg.com
“Christianity is still possible at any time. It is not tied to any dogma. It requires neither the doctrine of a personal God, nor that of sin, nor that of immortality, nor that of redemption, nor that of faith. Christianity is a way of life, not a system of beliefs. It tell us how to act, not what we…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“After all, parents can shop around for a psychologist just as some Catholics used to shop for a confessor.”— Allan Bloom, amazon.com
“The notion of a law of nature did not arise out of the practice of science itself. Sometime in the seventeenth century, it was imported into discourse about science from Christian theology, both directly, and indirectly through mathematics. Originally, laws of nature were understood as God's laws fo…”— Ronald N. Giere, amazon.com
“There is no essential difference, really, in how it feels to rise as one in joy to sing the praises of the Lord, or to rise as one in joy to sing the praises of the Hail Mary pass, the Immaculate Reception, the Angels, the Saints, the Friars, or the Demon Deacons.”— Hubert Dreyfus, amazon.com
“The opposition between sacred and secular is naive. Contrary to what we think we know, we have never entered into a secular era. The very idea of the secular is religious through and through — Christian really.”— Jacques Derrida, amazon.com