Confuse Quote by Stephen Batchelor

Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the assumption of…

— Stephen Batchelor

“The erotic arts have the same goal as religion; to prevent men from acting like beasts.”

— K. Ford K

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of…

— Ernest Hemingway

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of…

— William Shakespeare

“Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary.”

— Remy de Gourmont

It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The…

— Anonymous

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

— Luc de Clapiers

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“It was rightly said of Sade that his is the work of a moralist. Erotic books are almost all alike in this respect: either…

— André Pieyre de Mandiargues

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of…

— James Madison

“I am bundled in the warmth of the price and the purchase, and its solid completion, as in royal robes-- marvelous these royal robes!…

— Quinesia Johnson

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage