Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Will Herberg

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Will Herberg.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Will Herberg

William Herberg was an American writer, intellectual and scholar. A communist political activist during his early years, Herberg gained wider public recognition as a social philosopher and sociologist of religion, as well as a Jewish theologian. He was a leading conservative thinker during 1950s and an important contributor to the National Review magazine.

Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.
Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living. — © Will Herberg
Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.
Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.
America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.
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