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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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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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Faith
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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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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Its very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics. – Asghar Farhadi

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Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. – Mary Garden

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The world is my country, science is my religion. – Christiaan Huygens

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