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  • The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Men Quotes , Order Quotes
  • Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Ignorant Quotes
  • What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Men Quotes , Vanity Quotes
  • For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Intellectual Quotes