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Herbert J. Muller was a prominent historian known for his profound insights into American society and culture in the 20th century. His research covered the social changes in the United States from the Industrial Revolution to the Cold War era.

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Famous Herbert J. Muller Quotes

“Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the wise use of this power we need more, not less, of the objective dispassionate scientific spirit. For our philosophical purposes we need more of its integrity and its basic humility, its respect at once for the fact and the mystery.”

Needs Has Beens Facts Use Problem Spirit Purpose Wise Mystery Atheism Humility Integrity Majors Philosophical Remains Positive Atheism Objectives Major Problems Dispassionate

Author:Herbert J. Muller

“The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the Jordan. "In the temple of Solomon," wrote the ecstatic cleric Raimundus de Agiles, "one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses" bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God.”

Way Firsts Two Blood Atheism Thousand Judgment Horse Jew Positive Atheism Miles Knees Temples Marvelous Jordan Ecstatic Crusades Solomon Thousand Miles

Author:Herbert J. Muller

“Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be rejected... One sentence ... sums up the dark and deadly pages of Chistian history: "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."”

Ifs Believe Dark Atheism Pages Claims Positive Atheism Sentences Commit Dogma Rejected Absurdity Tested Atrocities Dogmatic One Sentence

Author:Herbert J. Muller

“Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.”

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Book:the Uses of the Past

Source: the Uses of the Past

“The sense of community is indispensable...to full self-realization.”

Self Community Self Realization Realization Indispensable

Author:Herbert J. Muller

“Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.”

Humans Heard Influence Human Life Inventor Entry Bookkeeping

Author:Herbert J. Muller

“This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.”

Kind Prayer Materials Creator Doctrine Cosmic Efficacy

Book:the Uses of the Past

Source: the Uses of the Past

“It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.”

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Author:Herbert J. Muller

About the Author

Born: July 7, 1905
Died: 1980
Known for: Historian
Quotes: 8

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