I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year's cars. They fished in their… — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image
We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him… — James Gibbons Copy Share Image
In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Those who confine God's love exclusively to the elect appear to me to take a narrow and contracted view of God's character… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have the highest veneration of those Gentleman, -- but, Sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“When is one considered to have learnt to become a husband? It is when the wife continuously experiences veneration (respect) for him.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had… — Egerton Brydges Copy Share Image
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art.… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos ... The pre-Christian God Mithras ...… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
