“Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.” SchoolReligionConsciousnessSubjectsInfiniteVariousFixedPersonal RelationshipsSyllabus Book:The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany
“Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.” KnowsFirstsMadeReligionSecretEnglandSurpriseLondonPassingPassingsFixedGesturesTowersElectricityMonumentTravellerNewness Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” Has BeensBeautifulFormLawReligionSimpleViewsGoneWonderfulAtheismPlanetsEvolutionSpeciesEndlessEvolveFixedGravityGrandeurNatural SelectionCyclingTheory Of EvolutionOrigin Of LifeOrigin Of SpeciesCreation And EvolutionEvolution Of Life Author:Charles Darwin
“It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.” IdeasReligionReligiousSubjectsConflictTraditionStatementsFixedScience And ReligionDomainSymbolicReligious Traditions Book:Ideas and Opinions Source: Ideas and Opinions