The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

Max Weber

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Absurdity of life Religion

Author

Max Weber

Source

Politics as a Vocation

Medium

Lecture

Language

German

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Sociologist

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Germany Europe

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Citation

Weber, Max. "Politiks wie Beruf [Politics As a Vocation]." 1917, Munich University, Munich, Germany. Lecture.

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Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky.

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Adventure Beginning of a journey

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Medium
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Language
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Time
1915 1910s 20th century
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Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 1.

Current Citation

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Another quote about Religion

A myth is a religion in which no-one any longer believes.

James K. Feibleman

Understanding Philosophy

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Topic
Myth Religion

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James K. Feibleman
Source
Understanding Philosophy
Language
English
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
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Feibleman, James K. "The Earliest Greek Philosophers." Understanding Philosophy: A Popular History of Ideas. Horizon Press, 1973, ch. 3.

Another quote from 1917

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Sigmund Freud

Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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Topic
Civilization

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Sigmund Freud
Source
Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
Medium
Lecture
Genre
Psychological literature
Language
German
Time
1917 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [Introduction to Psychoanalysis]. 1915-1917, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, lecture 1. Lecture series.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. W. W. Norton & Company, 1977, lecture 1.

Another quote originally in German

When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again-surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image.

Max Frisch

I'm Not Stiller

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Topic
Nature of love Love
Speaker
Julika Stiller-Tschudy

Author

Max Frisch
Source
I'm Not Stiller
Medium
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Language
German
Time
1954 1950s 20th century
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Citation

Frisch, Max. Stiller [I'm Not Stiller]. Suhrkamp, 1954, bk. 2.