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- There are two kinds of rituals: those that lead into life, those that lead out of it. Rebirth and death.
- There are two kinds of philosophies: those that lead into life, those that lead out of it. Rebirth and death.
- Philosophy replaces ritual, science places philosophy, technology replaces science, ritual replaces technology.
- Kierkegaard’s point was that no one is a Christian because no one knows what the Christ really means— they only know how to perform Him.
- If you’ve ever paid for a life coach that you’re really, really a sucker. You would have been better off going to church — where priests don’t charge.
- Ernst Cassirer: “By ‘symbolic form’ I mean that energy of the spirit through which a mental meaning-content is attached to a sensual sign and inwardly dedicated to this sign. In this sense language, the mythical-religious world, and the arts each present us with a particular symbolic form. For in them all we see the mark of the basic phenomenon, that our consciousness is not satisfied to simply receive impressions from the outside, but rather that it permeates each impression with a free activity of expression. In what we call the objective reality of things we are thus confronted with a world of self-created signs and images.”
- Advertising pushes out poetry — there’s an inverse relationship between the amount of advertising in a society and the amount of (good) poetry.
- The ancients sacrificed animals (including the human…
