"I’m not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive."
― Chaim Potok
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Experience
― Chaim Potok
More From Chaim Potok
- "Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere."
- "And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud’s view of man."
- "A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare – let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel."
More In Experience
- "If you’re feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you’re different."― Kristin Scott Thomas
- "The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat."― John le Carre
- "It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."― Aneurin Bevan