Eden Quotes - Page 11

• Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Grieving, Soul

  Alphonse de Lamartine, “Memory and Hope”

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• A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Spiritual, Children, Caring

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Spiritual, Winter

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.123, GENERAL PRESS

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• People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from a theological point of view, goes back to the Garden of Eden, that there is always this corrupt gene waiting to be activated that we inherited from the very beginning. I don't believe in that theological excuse.

  Wole Soyinka

  Believe, Garden, Views

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.

  R. C. Sproul

  Garden, Humans, Human History

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Now, That's a Good Question!”, p.149, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Hayatın birliğini tecrübe eden kişi bütün canlıları kendinde, kendini de bütün canlılarda görür ve herşeye tarafsız bir gözle bakar. / He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

  Gautama Buddha

  Eye, Self, Unity

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• In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit.
  She knew that there was something better than paradise.

  Cesare Borgia

  Garden, Paradise, Fruit

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• The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Garden, Blessing

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.115, VM eBooks

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• Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

  Herman Melville

  Sorry, Men, Tailors

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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• The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a nontechnological Eden which never existed...It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desireable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

  C.P. Snow

  Technology, Space, Use

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• Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Garden, Doe

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.76, Chartwell

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• See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kings, Garden, Sweat

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1928). “Morning and Evening: Daily Readings”, p.404, CCEL

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• Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Taken, Tired

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• [Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

  Cesare Borgia

  Torn

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• From Eden is spoken from the Devil's point of view. I always loved in blues music how the Devil can be a character who walks and talks. So awful is your state that it seems to be a presence around you. I don't really spend time thinking about the nature of God but I'm interested in what people say about God, how it is used to control people and change policies in the physical realm.

  Hozier

  Character, Thinking, Views

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• What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against mans fall and an assertion that he return to the Garden of Eden? For the artists are the first men.

  Barnett Newman

  Fall, Men, Garden

  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Barnett Newman, Lawrence Alloway (1966). “Barnett Newman, the stations of the cross, lema sabachthani”

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• Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

  Timothy Leary

  Garden, Sin, Crime

  Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications

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