Quotes with spiritualism

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• A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.

  Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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• Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

  John Updike
  American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• persuasiveness
• spiritualism
• theologians
• investigate
• necessarily
• bankruptcy

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