1855 Quote by Éliphas Lévi Download Open image ““Religion realizes philosophy by adapting it to the weaknesses of the vulgar…”” — Éliphas Lévi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1855 Doctrine Philosophy Realization Religion
“First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was thought to be a son of God. This savior, I shall attempt to show, deceived many and caused them to accept a form of belief harmful to the well-being of mankind. Taking its root in the lower classes,… — Celsus Copy Share
“Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.” — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
“for where the religions spirit is not tolerated, where there is no room for poetry and art, where love and death are robbed of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually nonconformist as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The history of man proves that religion perverts man's concept of life and the universe, and has made him a cringing coward before the… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Religion has had the disastrous effect of placing vitally important concepts, such as morality, happiness and love, in a supernatural realm inaccessible to man’s… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.” — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
“Religion is the process of internal growth, not a lifeless bag of foolish words.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The major religions do, after all, boast some very sophisticated and subtle philosophical and spiritual traditions,” — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
“When Christianity proscribed the public exercise of the ancient worships, the partisans of the latter were compelled to meet in secret for the celebration… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed solemnly the… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
“Like all magical mysteries, the secrets of the Great Work have a triple meaning: they are religious, philosophical and natural. Philosophical gold in religion… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good. — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed solemnly the… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
“The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.'… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back! Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping, I discover… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Those who abdicate the empire of reason and permit their wills to wander in pursuit of reflections in the Astral Light, are subject to… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
