Quotes of: Religious-experience Keyword

The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an end. We must adjust our notions to the discovery that things are not shaped to him, but that he is shaped to them. The air was not made ...

The Light of Day (Volume 11); Religious Discussions and Criticisms from the Naturalist's Point of View

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically he studied the scores of the great masters. At the end of the first year he was asked to submit a religious wor...

The Pearl Fishers: Vocal Score (French, English Language Edition), Vocal Score

Unless men may come to a reasonable, solid persuasion and conviction of the truth of the gospel, by the internal evidences of it, . . . by a sight of its glory; it is impossible that those who are illiterate, and unacquainted with history, should hav...

The Religious Affections

Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the men who, surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered...

The World As I See It

It meant leading my meta-life. Meta-life is the opposite of living in the moment. It's the syndrome of simultaneously having an experience and being an observer commenting on and questioning the experience. By observing something, you change it, some...

Five Things I Can't Live Without

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

William James

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Walter Pater

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

Guru Nanak

I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.

Jason Silva

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Victor Hugo

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.

Specimen Days

A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong.

Studies in Proverbs: Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth

Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.

Minor Poems

If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it.

The Martian

I could help you,” I said. “Counseling, drugs, a religious advisor, a girlfriend.

Notorious Nineteen

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

A Nietzsche Reader

It isn't as important to religiously cliam God/Jesus, then it is for us to live what we're professing to cliam"...

Ladies Rise Above Your Emotions

Zombies are far better than religious people, because they do not discriminate in killing.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS