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To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#believe #ceremonies #estimate #flourish #free

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. ↗

— William James

#bad #believe #change #different #enough

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. ↗

— William James

#any #attitude #curse #glad #grin

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! ↗

— William James

#anything #believes #cheap #discourse #faith

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. ↗

— William James

#devout #esteem #facts #itself #neutralized

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. ↗

— William James

#one thing #only #other #philosopher #philosophers

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#begins #either #ends #evil #fanaticism

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#any #character #deliver #depth #english

During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#country #deeply #during #first #grew

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#being #blocking #character #cliche #complicated