Lancelot Law Whyte - Man Quotes

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To rob man of his noblest faculty, the experience of and aspiration to perfection and unity in himself, we can now see to have been a truly hellish surgery.

Lancelot Law Whyte
The "divine" in man: creative bliss, the experience of perfection, the surprising joys of love all human, not divine.... It is time that God was put in his place, that is, in man, and no nonsense about it. But, to prevent misunderstanding, instead of speaking of the "divine" in man I will call it the human sense of perfection or unity.... Need I add that we may retain the Sermon on the Mount, Saint Paul's poem to charity, and much else, though we discard the Christian God?

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A naturalistic reinterpretation renders all that is authentic about the Christian doctrine greater not less, for it makes it a part of a new and stronger man, not of some fancied "superman," but simply man as he is but less distorted by a dissociating tradition.

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This essay touches bottom for twentieth century man.... it is one many signals marking the end of "Antiman," with his hopeless relativism, and announcing "Unitary Man,"... able to be more harmonious because he has become aware of the ordering processes at all levels in nature, without and within.... here at last subject and object are potentially fused in a single insight.

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The author... has known for that for several centuries freethinkers have led mankind. Only recently... new to him though perhaps long understood by others, possibly Kant and certainly Nietzsche, there emerged into his mind a clarity that will remain... the conception of transcendental divinity is damaging to man.

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In the vast tapestry of human experience there is nothing so extraordinary, or so challenging to human understanding as the process by which in a partly haphazard world of inorganic materials exploited their own laws so that organisms came into existence, and a cumulative process was started that led to the appearance of man.

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