"Andrew Lang, The Making of Religion, Longmans, Green and Co., 1909."

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“Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.”

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“Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.”

“Andrew Lang, Letters to Dead Authors, transcribed from the 1886 Longman's edition.”

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"If I ask questions about religion that my grandparents didn’t ask, it is not because I am intellectually advanced. I wonder about the existence of God because, unlike my grandparents, I live much of m…"

— Richard Rodriguez

Literature1958

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"The Pure Mind and the Pure Ātman are one and the same thing. Whatever comes up in the Pure Mind is the voice of God."

— Ramakrishna

Religion1836–1886

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"The … false ideal … tokenism—which is commonly guised as Equal Rights, and which yields token victories—deflects and shortcircuits gynergy, so that female power, galvanized under deceptive slogans of …"

— Mary Daly

Philosophy1928–2010

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