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Friedrich Nietzsche2 quotes
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882"Where is God gone?" he called out. "I mean to tell you! We have killed him,—you and I! We are all his murderers!" — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882Amiri Baraka1 quote
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. — Amiri Baraka · 1963Carl Jung1 quote
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. — Carl Jung · 1958Christian Boltanski1 quote
Museums have today become the new churches. — Christian Boltanski · 1997Christopher Hitchens1 quote
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. — Christopher Hitchens · 2007Fyodor Dostoevsky1 quote
But what will become of men then? I asked him, without God and immortal life? — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880Gerard de Nerval1 quote
God is dead! Heaven is empty-Weep, children,
You no longer have a father. — Gerard de Nerval · 1854Hans Morgenthau1 quote
Little do they know that they meet under an empty sky from which the gods have departed. — Hans Morgenthau · 1948Karl Marx1 quote
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world…it is the opium of the people. — Karl Marx · 1883Lech Walesa1 quote
You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love? — Lech Walesa · 1988Matthew Arnold1 quote
The sea of faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd;
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night. — Matthew Arnold · 1867Pope Benedict XVI1 quote
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. — Pope Benedict XVI · 2005R.E.M.1 quote
That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losin' my religion. — R.E.M. · 1991Robert Runcie1 quote
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. — Robert Runcie · 1988Wilfrid Sheed1 quote
If God has died in the blare of the twentieth century and in houses too new and cheap to be haunted, one must seek him in the old quiet places, where he might still live on in retirement. — Wilfrid Sheed · 1978William Moulton Marston1 quote
Not even the Church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion-picture company. — William Moulton Marston · 1929