Delight Quote by Paul Bourget

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

— Sallust

“Idol worship” is so deeply ingrained in the human brain synapses that it would be almost impossible to be bereft of it. And in…

— Giannis Delimitsos

“This kind of hero worship has been promoted by politicians and their complicit media since the middle of the last century. Once you convince…

— Joseph Befumo

“But as men farther exalt their idea of their divinity, it is their notion of his power and knowledge only, not of his goodness,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Since ancient times, people have bowed down to idols in the appearance of humility and contrition. But their goal wasn’t to be mastered by…

— Edward T. Welch

It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey…

— Stefan Zweig

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

— Martin Luther

Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and…

— Martin Luther

“Emotional and intellectual persecution, coupled perhaps with subtle exclusions…often seduces [believers]. For the sake of gaining plaudits, it is easy to trim one’s theology…

— D.A. Carson

“Now and then, in philosophers or artists, one finds a passionate and exaggerated worship of 'pure forms': no one should doubt that a person…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was…

— Tariq Ramadan