Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Social Values, Profound

• The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Arrows, Religion, Depth

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2012). “An Interpretation of Christian Ethics”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press

• The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Effort, Finals, Limits

  1941 The Nature and Destiny of Man, vol.1.

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