Forbidden Quote by Ralph Cudworth Download Open image “We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.” — Ralph Cudworth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forbidden Forbidden fruit Fruit Propensity
There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“To eat fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected like us… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
“There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine. To feel the need to vary the object of this temptation, to replace… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“Forbidden fruit is always very intriguing...though never as tasty as one imagined it would be.” — Claudy Conn Copy Share Image
“We all enter this world as potential barefoot fruitarians. Fruit has that up front mixture of appeals, vibrant colours, the tantalising textures and deliciously… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
Nowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world. — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be. — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Even the Atheists... readily acknowledge it for an indubitable truth, that there must be something... which was never made or produced - and which… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand. — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood. — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince of this world too, by the power of God in… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I remember being in a comic shop with my son, with my ten year-old son and he put his hand over my eyes. He… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
