Frederick the Great on God & Religion
September 1st, 2007Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
- Frederick the Great
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
- Frederick the Great
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
- Helen Keller
Cells let us walk, talk, think, make love and realize the bath water is cold.
- Lorraine Lee Cudmore
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
- Salvatore Quasimodo
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
- John Burroughs
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You’re only has good as your last haircut.
- Fran Lebowitz