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Quotes from The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion — Lancelot Law Whyte

1896–1972 Scotland

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Belief in a transcendental divinity arose from a misinterpretation of intimations from the less conscious levels of the mind. ...God is in the unconscious, is the unconscious, perhaps.

The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion (1974)

We are sick today for lack of simple ideas which can help us be what we want to be.

The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion (1974)

The Christian fog of self deception still does its damage: we either deceive ourselves by pretending to believe or overreact into a contempt of all religion. So, away with the fog!

The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion (1974)

To rob man of his noblest faculty, the experience of and aspiration to perfection and unity in himself , we can now see to have been a truly hellish surgery.

The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion (1974)

A naturalistic reinterpretation renders all that is authentic about the Christian doctrine greater not less, for it makes it a part of a new and stronger man, not of some fancied "superman," but simply man as he is but less distorted by a dissociating tradition.

The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion (1974)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lancelot Law Whyte (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.