Creeds

Examples

• Political creeds must receive the same treatment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Jean-Jacques is in fact a supreme case--perhaps even a slight caricature--of the way in which formal creeds bolster up passionate wants. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• His constructions, his formal creeds, his law-making and social arrangements are local and temporary--for us they can have only an antiquarian interest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We are just beginning to see how creeds are made. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The new effort proposes to fit creeds and institutions to the wants of men, to satisfy their impulses as fully and beneficially as possible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Few tombs on earth command the veneration of so many races and men of divers creeds as this of Joseph. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What Nietzsche has done here is, in his swashbuckling fashion, to cut under the abstract and final pretensions of creeds. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Suppose we recognize that creeds are instruments of the will, how would it alter the character of our thinking? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The religious investigations of William James were a study, not of ecclesiastical institutions or the history of creeds. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The men like Nietzsche and James who show the wilful origin of creeds are in reality the best watchers of the citadel of truth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mr. Zimmern's approach is common enough in modern scholarship, but the full significance of it for the creeds we ourselves are making is still something of a novelty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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