Deities Quote by Pliny the Elder Download Open image “Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.” — Pliny the Elder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deities Doe Men Privilege Suicide Sympathy
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide. — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for… — Pierre Drieu La Rochelle Copy Share Image
God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend:… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
Since we have been out of balance so heavily towards the male, it is going to be the feminine energy which will now move… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
