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Quote by Johan Huizinga
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and se

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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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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Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. – Thomas Paine

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To know a persons religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. – Eric Hoffer

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An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. – Jon Meacham

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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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