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God: An Anatomy
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Reinhold Niebuhr
“When economic power desires to be left alone it uses the philosophy of laissez faire to discourage political restraint upon economic freedom. When it wants to make use of the police power of the state to subdue rebellions and discontent in the ranks of its helots, it justifies the use of political coercion and the resulting suppression of liberties by insisting that peace is more precious than freedom and that its only desire is social peace.”
Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics

Michael Polanyi
“as human beings, we must inevitably see the universe from a centre lying within ourselves and speak about it in terms of a human language shaped by the exigencies of human intercourse. Any attempt rigorously to eliminate our human perspective from our picture of the world must lead to absurdity.”
Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-critical Philosophy

Nikolai Berdyaev
“The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.”
Nikolai Berdyaev

Romano Guardini
“The idea that everyone is strong enough to bear immediate contact with God is false, and conceivable only by an age that has forgotten what it means to stand in the direct ray of divine power, that substitutes sentimental religious ‘experience’ for the overwhelming reality of God’s presence. To claim that everyone could and should be exposed to that reality is sacrilegious.”
Romano Guardini, The Lord

Sextus Empiricus
“Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.”
Sextus Empiricus

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