Will Herberg Quotes

United States, Writer
June 30, 1901 – March, 26, 1977.

William "Will" Herberg was an American writer, intellectual and scholar. A communist political activist during his early years, Herberg gained wider public recognition as a social philosopher and sociologist of religion, as well as a Jewish theologian. He was a leading conservative thinker during 1950s and an important contributor to the National Review magazine.

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Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

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Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.

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- Religious
- Needs
- Breathe

Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.

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- Worship
- Idolatry
America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.

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