At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated focus has brought some benefits...It may also be a modern malady. Specialization, when taken too far and allowed to define who and what we are, becom...
When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a history; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinc...
Many Detroiters, for example, are beginning to see urban agriculture as a real part of the solution; to grow things right where people live, where they work, and definitely need healthier food on the table. Green city gardens are scattered throughout...
One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi groups. While Sufi brotherhoods are generally known for a more quietist and mystic approach to Islam, they traditionally rank among the best organized a...
Maximillian Cohen: Restate my assumptions: One, Mathematics is the language of nature. Two, Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are p...
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
Money has no religion except itself.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.
Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.
In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.
Night. Wind. Stars. Sea. Stones.
Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?
Religion turned some folks belligerent.
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
I'm all for 'tools,' not 'schools,' of therapy. To me, the schools of therapy compete much like religions, or even cults, all claiming to know the cause and to have the best method for treating people.
No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.
Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
