Darkness Quote by Lindley Murray

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from…

— H. P. Lovecraft

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus…

— Larry Hurtado

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

— Richard Baxter

Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in…

— David Lloyd George

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it…

— Louis Aragon

“A superstitious belief which embraces an error keeps the possibility open that the truth may come to arouse it; but when the truth is…

— Søren Kierkegaard

In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and orthodox churches. Darkness indicates that something…

— Dan Kimball

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

— Baruch Spinoza

For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is at night that faith in light is admirable.

— Edmond Rostand