Quote by Peter Thiel Download Open image ““Before execution, scapegoats were often worshipped like deities.”” — Peter Thiel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“there were gods who needed to be worshipped and placated, and the currency for that was blood.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“Once man loses his faculty of indifference he becomes a potential murderer; once he transforms his idea into a god the consequences are incalculable.… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped... Half gods are worshipped in… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“[...]every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance toward the innocent” — John Irving Copy Share Image
“We have worshipped at the altar of inclusion when we were built to worship at the altar of the only living God.” — Lisa-Jo Baker Copy Share Image
“When innocent and virtuous men liked to have gods as witnesses of their actions, they lived with them in the same huts. But having… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“A deeper significance is attached to sacrifice, when the worshipping self and the gods worshipped are realised to be the same.” — Satischandra Chatterjee Copy Share Image
“The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“One should never blame gods, he believed, for the use to which human beings put them.” — Marie-Elena John Copy Share Image
“Ignorance and fear create the gods, enthusiasm and deceit adorn them, and human weakness worships them.” — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I think we have a bubble in the US in government bonds, because of the quantitative easing and the negative real interest rates, and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Time and decision-making themselves follow a power law, and some moments matter far more than others” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Today, we exaggerate the differences between left-liberal egalitarianism and libertarian individualism because almost everyone shares their common indefinite attitude. In philosophy, politics, and business,… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
When you already have $150 billion a year in revenues from the iPhone, it's very hard to come up with any new vertical that… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“CREATIVE MONOPOLY means new products that benefit everybody and sustainable profits for the creator. Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Today our society is permeated by the twin ideas that death is both inevitable and random.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“if your company can be summed up by its opposition to already existing firms, it can’t be completely new and it’s probably not going… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Is a lukewarm attitude to one’s work a sign of mental health? Is a merely professional attitude the only sane approach?” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business—no matter how good the… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
