“He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.” MayLongLastsLeftInterestingCompanyGoneMagicDevilEmptyTablesBelieverPlatesModernitySpoonsLeft AloneSupperGone AwayLast Supper Author:Peter L. Berger
“A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.” YearsMayCitiesYears AgoDisappearPriestsSectionsRumorSlums Book:A Rumor of Angels Source: A Rumor of Angels
“Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy” MayLongRunningCertainForceDemocracyControlledLong RunsSingapore Author:Peter L. Berger
“On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man experiences himself as an entity that is not identical with his body, but that, on the contrary, has that body at its disposal. In other words, man's experience of himself always hovers in a balance between being and having a body, a balance that must be redressed again and again.” MenWayMaySaidBodyHandsAnimalBalanceContraryAgain And AgainEntityOrganismsIdentical Author:Peter L. Berger
