Alliances Quote by Clive Bell

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family…

— Clive Bell

The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those matters in…

— Johannes Kepler

“Men. There seemed to be no escape from them.”

— Stephen King

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

— Ovid

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

— Anais Nin

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its…

— Max Planck

Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious…

— Lewis Mumford

We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion and art.…

— Peter Greenaway

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

— Willa Cather

Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each…

— Max Planck

Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do…

— P.D. Ouspensky