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Quote by Johan Huizinga
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. I

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

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

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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. – Johan Huizinga

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Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. – Johan Huizinga

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I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment. – Donald Cargill

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It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so. – Ernestine Rose

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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. – Thomas Paine

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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. – Sojourner Truth

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