Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question.… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat.… — Marilyn Copy Share Image
The French press can be very harsh, and the one thing they can't bear is multi-tasking. They despise it to the highest… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it. — El Greco Copy Share Image
The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises?… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord. — Lady Jane Grey Copy Share Image
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The only way to ensure that you and those you agree with have the right to speak is to support the right… — Pamela Wallin Copy Share Image
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
In my view, [Vladimir] Putin despises the West in general and the United States in particular, both for who we are, our… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image