Fleas Quote by Kevin Hearne

“Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Religion called – Angels beckoned – God commanded – life rolled together like a scroll – death's gates opening showed eternity beyond.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,…

— William Shakespeare

“The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology,…

— Sam Harris

“If there is one fable, which would seem entitled to escape the analysis, which we have undertaken of religious poems and sacred legends, by…

— Anonymous

“Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought. It is the…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Under the penitential gates Sustained by staring Seraphim Where the souls of the devout Burn invisible and dim.”

— T.S. Eliot

Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word,…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we…

— Edgar Allan Poe

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

— Alexander Pope

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

— Robert Burns