"We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about"
- Max Cannon
About this Quote
This quote by Max Cannon recommends that everybody has something that they are passionate about which they are willing to defend and also fight for. It implies that people can end up being extremely committed to their beliefs as well as opinions, which they can end up being practically religious in their devotion to them. This can be anything from a political opinion to a favored sporting activities team. It recommends that people can end up being so enthusiastic concerning something that they want to visit terrific lengths to safeguard it. This quote is a tip that every person has something that they are passionate about which it is necessary to appreciate the ideas of others, also if they vary from our very own.
"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"
"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt"
"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life"
"This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost"
"Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory"