I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You are a sceptic." "Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith." "What are you?" "To define is to limit.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery and the union of spirit with matter was a mystery also.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Or was the body really in the soul, as Giordano Bruno thought? The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate:… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh new school, a school that is to have in it all the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For the various spiritual forms of the imagination have a natural affinity with certain sensuous forms of art - and to discern… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And so, it is not our own life that we live, but the lives of the dead, and the soul that dwells… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In every sphere of life, form is the beginning of things. […] Forms are the food of faith, cried Newman in one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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