Adopted Quote by Will Durant Download Open image “Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.” — Will Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adopted Christianity Paganism
Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated. — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“One of the early critics of Christianity was Celsus (fl. 180), the witty philosopher who observed that Christianity was a "degraded kind of Platonism,… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
The more I got to knew about Paganism the more Pagan I became, so to say, but I didn't really know enough until after… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love. — Jane Ellen Harrison Copy Share Image
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under… — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance with which… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“The form of Christianity that developed in Europe and later spread to America and the rest of the world was the last great creation… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by… — Harpo Marx Copy Share Image
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both.… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And when I'm… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I did this one movie with a great director named Wayne Kramer. It was 'Crossing Over,' and Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta… — Justin Chon Copy Share Image
I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess lessons to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple… — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
