--- title: "1 Great poetry Quotes By Revilo P. Oliver" description: "1 Great poetry quotes by Revilo P. Oliver. Plus more from Revilo P. Oliver and more Great poetry sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1de/revilo-p-oliver-31602_beautiful_the-most-beautiful-conception-of-immorta_1822074.jpg" --- > [The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set forth in Pindar's second Olympian: after three or six lives in which a man has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/the-most-beautiful-conception-of-immortality-of-which-i-know-and/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1de/revilo-p-oliver-31602_beautiful_the-most-beautiful-conception-of-immorta_1822074.jpg) ## More by Revilo P. Oliver > [As late as the summer of 1941, the Atlantic Monthly, then a still respected magazine for literates and edited by White men, published a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/as-late-as-the-summer-of-1941-the-atlantic-monthly-then-a-still/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) > [Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/our-idealists-must-own-that-their-velleity-to-abolish-all-suffering/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) > [It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/it-is-a-truism-of-course-that-in-democratic-states-the-populace-must/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) > [“Marxist cults are both a culmination of the evolution of Christianity and a most impressive instance of the historical and social phenomenon that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/marxist-cults-are-both-a-culmination-of-the-evolution-of-christianity/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) > [History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/history-in-other-words-is-just-a-device-to-be-used-by-well-paid/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) > [As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their families and their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/as-spengler-observed-all-urbanized-societies-seem-to-develop-a/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) > [American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/american-conservatism-is-finished-and-its-remaining-adherents-are/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) > [Every campus, of course, also has its rabble of young "liberals," who are forever making a din as they "demonstrate" for "world peash," "snivel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/every-campus-of-course-also-has-its-rabble-of-young-liberals-who-are/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) > [The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/the-most-beautiful-conception-of-immortality-of-which-i-know-and/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) > [A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/a-political-philosophy-often-called-political-science-by/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) > [“There can be no greater antithesis than between the Greeks’ rational and objective truth and the "truth of unreason," as Bertrand Russell aptly termed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/there-can-be-no-greater-antithesis-than-between-the-greeks-rational/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) > [When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and always will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/when-the-veil-of-fiction-was-rent-man-shuddered-before-nature-red-in/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) > [“Marx concocted his heresy in a time in which greatly increased knowledge of nature had, as we remarked earlier, sent Nature’s God into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/marx-concocted-his-heresy-in-a-time-in-which-greatly-increased/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) > [“As everyone who has read the Marxists critically has not failed to see... the gospel of St. Marx is just the old Judaeo-Christian mythology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/as-everyone-who-has-read-the-marxists-critically-has-not-failed-to/) [Revilo P. Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/revilo-p-oliver/) > [“the gospel of St. Marx is just the old Judaeo-Christian mythology with the supernatural sanctions left out”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/revilo-p-oliver/the-gospel-of-st-marx-is-just-the-old-judaeo-christian-mythology-with/) [Revilo P. 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