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- Without a sense of the divine, we’re left fishing for importance, for relevance, in the wrong pool — ourselves.
- The split between atheism and theism to me now seems obsolete; all that’s left is the split between those whose passion for life is dead, and those for whom it is still living.
- When nothing is sublime, then nothing is alive — to you.
- Everything has to be a part of a creative endeavor to join with something higher unless… there is nothing higher — and then what? This is the thought process that stops most people from being creative.
- Modernity began — historically speaking — yesterday. Whether you mark the beginning of modernity with the enlightenment or Ibsen or Einstein or Steve Jobs, it was yesterday; it was all such a short time ago in the wider scope of things. Simply: we have no idea yet, how to live, as individuals, apart from the primordial tribe, the primordial rules, the primordial ideas.
- I no longer recognize the terms political and conservative — those seem to me, like everything else in American life, to be brands, not authentic categories of political belief.
