Animal Quote by Georges Bernanos

“If a faithful account was rendered of man's ideas upon the Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the…

— Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in…

— William Hazlitt

“The Spirit also sighs within us with words too deep for articulation, assisting us in our prayers when we struggle to know how to…

— François Du Toit

“Always I find when I begin to write there is one character who obstinately will not come alive...He never does the unexpected thing, he…

— Graham Greene

“I, to whom nature had denied the impromptu faculty; who, in public, was by nature a cypher; whose time of mental activity, even when…

— Charlotte Bronte

“The witnessing force behind mind, that characteristic self or spirit is called atman; the God in you.”

— Gian Kumar

“It is the most capricious prejudice to believe that a human being is denied the capacity to be outside himself, to be consciously beyond…

— Novalis

Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being who knows…

— Henry Corbin

“The primary religion of mankind arises chiefly from an anxious fear of future events; and what ideas will naturally be entertained of invisible, unknown…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In the religious myths, the creative will appears personified in God, and man already feels himself guilty when he assumes himself to be like…

— Otto Rank

“ Machik thus maintains that what is conventionally referred to as a "god" is in fact the positive nature of reflexive awareness that characterizes…

— Michelle Sorensen

“There is a quaint old theory that man may have two souls—a peripheral one which serves ordinarily, and a central one which is stirred…

— Anonymous