Morality exists first; later, religion codifies it.
Customs come first, and then mythology follows to explain them.
While things are happening, they come by a
higher law than reasoning; that [i.e. reason] arises later in the attempt to understand them.
Reasoning is not the motive power, it is "chewing the cud" afterwards. Reason is
the historian of the actions of the human being.
- Swami Vivekananda, Inspired Talks
Customs come first, and then mythology follows to explain them.
While things are happening, they come by a
higher law than reasoning; that [i.e. reason] arises later in the attempt to understand them.
Reasoning is not the motive power, it is "chewing the cud" afterwards. Reason is
the historian of the actions of the human being.
- Swami Vivekananda, Inspired Talks
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