“Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.”

Source: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 180
Context: We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.

Source: Imaginary Conversations

"The Privilege of the Grave" (1905)

Intellectual Freedom (1971)

Source: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 43

To many people tend to ask questions that the possible answers to that question might cause anger, hurt, disappointment or displays a weakness that they never were aware of until they got the one answer they weren't prepared for. If you haven't considered that then you might want to refrain from asking it.

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