Ernst Cassirer Quotes
Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.
Quotes to Explore
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
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To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
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I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.
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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
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History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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Our most urgent problem just now is how to preserve in a positive and critical form the soul of truth in the two great traditions, classical and Christian, that are crumbling as mere dogma.
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'When we inherit stolen wealth in a will, we would live under a stolen future – thereby mortgaging our future. Remember, what comes from God goes to Him. What comes from truth goes to truth. What comes from stealing goes to stealing. What comes from destruction goes to destruction.'
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He used a name for himself, true, but we played at Romance, and this is a game where truth is a bagatelle.
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Like the Paris riots, the struggle over French history raises grave questions for Europe. How does the presence of 20 million Muslims who come from nations where men believe their grandfathers were exploited and persecuted by Europeans advance the unity and security of Europe? How is Europe made stronger by such 'diversity'?
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On Global Warming, in response to Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General James Milkey's correction of Scalia's reference to the stratosphere: Troposphere, whatever. I told you before I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.
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If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
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When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Even if I have a home in Paris and sometimes in New York, whenever I was saying I have to go home, it was going to my mother.
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Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.
