It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.
Richard M. WeaverTag: assumptions thoughts secularism
No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.
Richard M. WeaverTag: dependence social-welfare
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.
Richard M. WeaverTag: optimism tragedy realism depravity
The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive for one’s view of the nature and destiny of man.
Richard M. WeaverTag: truth relativism word-of-god
The typical modern has the look of the hunted.
Richard M. WeaverTag: modernity purposelessness
[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.
Richard M. WeaverTag: identity creation destiny dominion
The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.
Richard M. WeaverTag: arrogance fallibility hubris
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
Richard M. WeaverTag: government church-and-state
Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.
Richard M. WeaverTag: politeness discipline piety rectitude
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