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"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."

Johan Huizinga on Religion

More quotes about Religion

  • "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."

    Dalai Lama on Religion

  • "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Religion

  • "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

    C. S. Lewis on Religion

  • "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

    C. S. Lewis on Religion

  • "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

    Albert Camus on Religion

More quotes by Johan Huizinga

  • "Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."

  • "An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."

  • "These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution."

  • "History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us."

  • "In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."

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