We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our povertyis as absolute as that of the poorest nations. We have attempted to deny the human condition in our quest for power after power. It would be well for us to rejoin the human race, to accept our essential poverty as a gift, and to share our material wealth with those in need.
Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent, ontoge… - Robert Neelly Bellah
Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent, ontoge…
- Robert Neelly Bellah
It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary. - Robert Neelly Bellah
It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child n… - Robert Neelly Bellah
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child n…
The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand. - Robert Neelly Bellah
The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand.
That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached … - Robert Neelly Bellah
That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached …
Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to fo… - Robert Neelly Bellah
Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to fo…
We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition. - Robert Neelly Bellah
We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.
...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence. - Robert Neelly Bellah
...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.
The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but it's s… - Robert Neelly Bellah
The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but it's s…
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