Ambrose Bierce: Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of — Ambrose Bierce

Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce

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As water from the glasses is all poured into one vessel, so all the praises are — Rumi
Deos placatos pictas efficiet et sanctitas. — Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. Cicero
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my — Mahatma Gandhi
Religion as a whole is but a form of loyalty to the interests of English propert — Robert Briffault
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its o — Karl Marx
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and v — Gustave Flaubert
Non est, crede mihi sapientis dicere "vivam." Sera nimis vita est crastina, vive — Martial
Sunt aliquid Manes: letum non omnia finit, Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos — There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all
Gaudeamus igitur, Juvenes dum sumus Post jucundam juventutem. Post molestam sene — Let us live then
The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common aff — Karl Marx
Ez fer war, I call it murder,— Ther you hev it plain and flat; I don't want to g — James Russell Lowell
Mitfreude, nicht Mitleiden, macht den Freund . — Fellowship in joy