Gideon > Gideon's Quotes

“Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.”
― John Calvin

“Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.”
― Martin Buber

“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
― Mark Twain