1935 Quote by Robert Graves Download Open image ““Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.”” — Robert Graves ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1935 Fanaticism Insanity Religion
“The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.” — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
“Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“for what is religion if not a kind of madness, and what is madness without a touch of religion?” — James Robertson Copy Share Image
“Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“The greatest philosophy comes form the 'insanest' of people.” — Rebeca T. Isbell Isbell Rebeca T Copy Share Image
“if insanity is what we must accept and live with, then may God help us all to find a better kind of madness.” — Deborah Renee Copy Share Image
“I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Does it never strike you that doubt can be a madness, as well as faith? That asking questions may be a disease, as well… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to go away… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock Never want for food or fire Always get their heart's desire Jingle pockets full of gold Marry when they're seven years old Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep All have houses, each his own Built of brick or granite stone They live on cherries,… — Robert Graves Copy Share
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or distracting,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Entrance and exit wounds aresilvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood. The one-armed… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Manticor in Arabia (The manticors of the montaines Mighte feed them on thy braines.--Skelton.) Thick and scented daisies spread Where with surface dull like lead Arabian pools of slime invite Manticors down from neighbouring height To dip heads, to cool fiery blood In oozy depths of sucking mud. Sing then of ringstraked manticor, Man-visaged tiger who of yore Held whole… — Robert Graves Copy Share
“In truth, the epoch is gone in which we had the impression that the masses of society could be guided by reason and by insights into their situation of life to achieve social improvement with their own strength. In truth, the days are gone in which the masses have a function in shaping society. It has been shown that the… — William S. Schlamm Copy Share
“This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America” — Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov Copy Share Image
“A Spaniard and a Pole worked in the barbershop where we got our hair cut. An Italian shined our shoes. A Croat washed our… — Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov Copy Share Image
“The human form was never [formed] to beget children. This tendency among people to cohabit is nothing but animal instinct inherited from all the… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
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