We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things…a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a ‘hypothesis.

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things…a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a ‘hypothesis.

– Michael Polanyi –

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