The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race — Hugo Rahner Copy Share Image
I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana.” — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
“She flutters a hand and history breathes—innocence returns, sin ripens on the tree of knowledge, death comes to be.” — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
“When I'm in yoga class, and I'm in the Tree Pose, I always pretend I'm the Tree of Knowledge. To help further… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“We are in our own dark Eden where the snake is not selling the Tree of Knowledge. He is selling love, and… — Shane Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Most people believe the apple merely represented Knowledge. But we know better. It was the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of… — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Copy Share Image
“Misconceptions are unavoidable now that we've eaten of the Tree of Knowledge. But Paradise is locked and bolted, and the cherubim stands… — Heinrich von Kleist Copy Share Image
“On the Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone It must have been the eighth day. A day the scribes and Pharisees conveniently left… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“Eve's Fall symbolizes women's invention of agriculture, which came to be seen as the Original Sin that caused the loss of Paradise.… — Robert S. McElvaine Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
“T is sweet to win, no matter how, one's laurels, By blood or ink; 't is sweet to put an end To… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“Consider this, Mr. D’Arnoq urged us. Two thousand savages (Mr. Evans’s best guess) enshrine “Thou Shalt Not Kill” in word & in… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I used to wonder why God used a prop like the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to inflict guilt on… — Jon Rappoport Copy Share Image
I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Faith is the direct product of doubt. It is the bridge between what we have and what we want. Contrary to popular… — Stephen Tobolowsky Copy Share Image
“I handed them a script and they turned it down. It was too controversial. It talked about concepts like, 'Who is God?'… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
“How can you spend your days just damning people? Man, where do you think we are right now? Not just right here,… — Tony Vigorito Copy Share Image
“Sir James Frazer speculated that the original oral myth about the Garden of Eden was not about a Tree of Knowledge and… — Howard Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Or consider a story in the Jewish Talmud left out of the Book of Genesis. (It is in doubtful accord with the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Anesthesia was discovered. Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering? Anesthesia is the most humane… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“I think the roots of this antagonism to science run very deep. They're ancient. We see them in Genesis, this first story,… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Only bad religions depend on mysteries, just as bad governments depend on secret police." A character's response to a discussion about eating… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple; you're going to be as smart as God." We can't have… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
