Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Margaret Atwood

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

Mel Brooks

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Muhammad Iqbal

It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'

Richard Dawkins

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Richard Le Gallienne

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

Richard Rohr

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

Toni Morrison

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Voltaire

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

Nikki Giovanni

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

Richard Dawkins

Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.

Richard Dawkins

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

Rita Dove

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

William Congreve

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

William Shenstone

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

Andrea Dworkin

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Honore de Balzac

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

Terence

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

Annie Besant

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

Annie Besant