Decadence Quote by Siddharth Katragadda Download Open image “Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.” — Siddharth Katragadda ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decadence Influence Intellect Intelligence People Religion
Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature. — Theodore Schroeder Copy Share Image
“OVER the past two hundred years the influence of intellectuals has grown steadily. Indeed, the rise of the secular intellectual has been a key… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Religious illiteracy is more dangerous because religion is the most volatile constituent of culture, because religion has been, in addition to one of the… — Stephen R. Prothero Copy Share Image
“also review the general history of religion and how we saw a rapid acceleration of intellectual and social human progress only after religion’s influence… — Alan Jeskin Copy Share Image
But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order. — Jacob Neusner Copy Share Image
One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The vast stores of knowledge that represent the evolving wisdom borne from the scientific mind is proof positive that religion is no longer relevant… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
“The relative religions of the world illuminate the intellect. The facts beyond the intellect cannot be grasped through the intellect.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
The purest water is formed by flowing through the muddiest mountains — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
When you have a big problem to solve, break it down to smaller ones first. — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
A little arrogance in the hands of the capable is well earned - and in most case, deserved. — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
The God of religion exists only in our minds. The real God exists but we can never comprehend him in our minds — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
“No scripture comes directly from God. They are collections of rules or values or both, that were shaped by the socio-economic conditions of a… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen. — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
The case for meat-eaters - if eating meat is a sin, then why are some plants carnivorous? — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance. — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
What is gained through ignorance is bound to be lost through ignorance — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
Couples should keep their love pure before it poisons the purest love of all - that between them and their children — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them. — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I think Illium can take care of himself.” “Not if he keeps flirting with you.” A fine, almost elegant tendril of heat, champagne and… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself to express… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgusted by our banal entertainments, our shrunken landscapes,… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“He saw a chamber, broad and low, designed, in its every rich stain of picture and slumberous hanging, to appeal to the sensuous. And… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
