Ernst Cassirer Quotes

We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.

Ernst Cassirer

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• It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Up
  • Good
  • Relationship

• I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Man
  • Never
  • Religion

• I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Great
  • Relationship

• From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Relationship
  • Perspective

• I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Parents

• To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Nature
  • Relationship

• I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Friends

• People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Me
  • Question
  • Religion

• I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Long
  • Live

• Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever I experience a strong emotion in life, I definitely have to throw myself into my songwriting. It is very therapeutic.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Experience

• The dog lasted. The marriage didn't. So it shows which relationship was meant to be.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Relationship
  • Marriage
  • Dog

• If you're in a squeeze for capital and you have a solid, mutually beneficial relationship with a VC, your chances of raising will increase dramatically.

  

  David Cohen
  • Relationship

• There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

  

  Max Greenfield
  • Relationship
  • Walking

• Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

  

  David Leavitt
  • Writing
  • Relationship
  • Bitter

• I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?

  

  Jenny McCarthy
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Important
  • Power
  • Relationship

• The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Perception
  • Consistency
  • DNA

• All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Vision
  • Unique
  • Moment

• The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other two.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • Country
  • Power

• Youth is wasted on the young. And it doesn't even matter if you sit a young person down and tell them, 'You're so healthy, take advantage of it before it's gone!' They still can't hear it.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.

• We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.

  

  Ernst Cassirer
  • Relationship
  • Religion
  • Expression