Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.
Quotes about relics (16 Quotes)
Oh, breathe not his name let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid,
With crosses, relics, crucifixes, Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes, The tools of working out salvation By mere mechanic operation.
And the prophet said to them Surely the sign of His kingdom is, that there shall come to you the chest in which there is tranquillity from your Lord and residue of the relics of what the children of Musa and the children of Haroun have left, the angels bearing it most surely there is a sign in this for those who believe.
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.
After killing off a number of plants inadvertently, it may be hard to face horticultural euthanasia. ... But the misfortune of these mistakes goes beyond a small blot on your garden. The sad relics are the lessons you are refusing to learn. ... After four or five years you have to make an assessment of your selections and stop nursing along specimens that long for permanent quiet peace. You will be amazed what a lift it will give to your whole garden to be rid of these ghosts.
Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.
We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return, - prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.
And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.
How can such a man be chased away in a world full of churches, where there are clans and clans, groups and groups of priests, quacks, gurus, ministers, pastors, rabbis, muftis and other representatives of the cults Dont they represent mans devotion to the church, dont they serve religion What people serve today is not a religion of the man that would identify him with his own divinity, but a religion that identifies man to the salve of an external divinity, as if it not man who knows this world, but the external divinity. Lets assume that the external divinity knew this world which would be independent of mans ephemeral existence. Then why does this world disappear with the man Because it is his world. The world of the dinosaurs existed when there were not people, we have relics of that time. Who dreamed the world of the dinosaurs It was the current man too, when he discovered it, because dinosaurs saw it completely different from what the man sees, and eve if man existed at the time, the dinosaurs would have still seen it different, as animals or birds, fishes or reptiles do.
Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name.
It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.