Not exact matches
It is not a natural thing for people to draw a
sharp separation between religion and politics
as distinct realms, to demand responsible participation in both and simultaneously to say that the object of one (God) is the criterion for the object of the other (the exercise of power).
Since Plato is often cited
as the source of the
sharp separation of the sensible and the intelligible that has preoccupied subsequent generations of philosophers, it is hard to overestimate the significance of Whitehead's footnote.
Since in China there is no such
sharp separation into religious groups
as in the West, it may be said that most Chinese have in them something of both tendencies, and feel perfectly free to express themselves at one time through one, at another time through the other.
The
sharp, chemical smell was nothing like the hazy syrup of my dreams; the two were
as different
as Indian and Carolina jasmine,
separation and attachment.