"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."
― Johan Huizinga
Topic(s):
Religion
More From Johan Huizinga
- "Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
- "These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution."
- "Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?"
More In Religion
- "I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion."― Oriana Fallaci
- "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."― Pope John Paul II
- "The Constitution says that government isn’t supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld."― Michael Newdow