“We see again confirmed the correlation between spiritual impotence and antirationalism: one cannot deny God and retain reason.”

—  Eric Voegelin

in reference to Marx and Comte, p. 298
"From Enlightenment to Revolution" (1975)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update March 11, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "We see again confirmed the correlation between spiritual impotence and antirationalism: one cannot deny God and retain …" by Eric Voegelin?
Eric Voegelin photo
Eric Voegelin13
American philosopher 1901–1985

Related quotes

David Sedaris photo

“There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.”

David Sedaris Naked

Source: Naked

Peter Singer photo

“Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.”

Peter Singer (1946) Australian philosopher

Source: Writings on an Ethical Life

Pierre Beaumarchais photo

“It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them.”

Pierre Beaumarchais book The Barber of Seville

Il n'est pas nécessaire de tenir les choses pour en raisonner.
Act V, scene iv. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 658-59.
Le Barbier de Séville (1773)

Jean Paul Sartre photo

“That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Charles Stross photo

“Er, I can’t confirm or deny, but that’s a good guess.”

Charles Stross book Iron Sunrise

Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 4, “Magical Mystery Tour” (p. 67)

“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Variant: The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

Ron Paul photo

“Christ came here for spiritual reasons, not secular war and boundaries and geography. And yet, we are now dedicating so much of our aggressive activity in the name of God, but God, he is the Prince of Peace. That is what I see from my God and through Christ. I vote for peace.”

Ron Paul (1935) American politician and physician

Values Voter Presidential Debate, September 17, 2007 http://www.renewamerica.us/archives/transcript.php?id=429 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hCKZmkF0VU <br class="br">2000s, 2006-2009

Catherine of Genoa photo

“I do not wish a love which may be described as for God, or in God. I cannot see those words, for and in, without their suggesting to me that something may intervene between God and me; and that is what pure and simple love, by reason of its purity and simplicity, is unable to endure. This purity and simplicity is as great as God is, for it is his own”

Catherine of Genoa (1447–1510) Italian author and nurse

Source: Life and Doctrine, Ch. XVIII

Potter Stewart photo

“I think that the court has misapplied a great constitutional principle. I cannot see how 'official religion' is established by letting those who want to say a prayer say it. On the contrary, I think that to deny the wish of these school children to join in reciting this prayer is to deny them the opportunity of sharing in the spiritual heritage of the nation.”

Potter Stewart (1915–1985) American judge

Dissenting, Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962).

Immanuel Kant photo

“The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.”

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher

A lecture at Königsberg (1775), as quoted in A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1946) by H. L. Mencken, p. 955
Context: The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective.

Related topics