Temples Quotes - Page 11

• The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings and society. Art was an asceticism, a spiritual heroism; Revolution was the construction of a universal church.

  Octavio Paz

  Spiritual, Art, Museums

  Octavio Paz (1987). “1904-1912”, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt.

  Anthony Trollope

  Character, Differences, House

  Anthony Trollope (1983). “Trollope-to-reader: A Topical Guide to Digressions in the Novels of Anthony Trollope”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Liberty, Irony

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• Jesus defied all of these rules. He taught in the outer courts of the Temple so women could join the audience.

  Danny Silk

  Jesus, Taught, Court

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• Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Dream, Cities, Names

  Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”

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• In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.

  Thomas Huxley

  Philosophy, Sacrifice, Sanctuary

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• For who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods, a cruel and violent death shall be his fate, and never shall his soul find rest unto eternity. Such is the curse of Amon-Ra, king of all the gods.

  Griffin Jay

  Kings, Fate, Soul

  "Fictional character: The High Priest". "The Mummy's Hand", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• I play Dwight. That is just much me being of service and worshiping as if I'm on my knees in some temple somewhere or bowing my head in prayer to God in some way. It's really all just the same thing.

  Rainn Wilson

  Prayer, Play, Knees

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.

  John Frusciante

  Love You, Cities, People

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• Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Brother, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.34, Coyote Canyon Press

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• In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Knowledge, Foundation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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• Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago.

  Sam Hamill

  Farewell, Moon, Simple

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• After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

  Mason Cooley

  Envy, Glory, Chained

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• History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

  Emile M. Cioran

  History, Mind, Degradation

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Design, Principles, Architect

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book III. Chapter I, Sec. 1, 15BC.

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• Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Sacrifice, East, Looks

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book IV, Chapter IX, Section 1), circa 15 BC.

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• The construction of temples of the Ionic order to Juno, Diana, Father Bacchus, and the other gods of that kind, will be in keeping with the middle position which they hold; for the building of such will be an appropriate combination of the severity of the Doric and the delicacy of the Corinthian.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Father, Order, Delicacy

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II, Section 5,

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• For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Sacred, Rite, Performances

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book IV, Chapter VIII, Section 6), circa 15 BC.

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• Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sheep, Tree, Lightning

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• The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the centuries, but the new continent was to be the home and temple of the living God.

  Chauncey Depew

  Memories, Home, Tragedy

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1902). “The Library of Oratory: Ancient and Modern, with Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists”

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• Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a constituted religion--unbelief appears only under an individual form, sometimes proscribed, sometimes tolerated, seldom powerful, and never becoming established as the public and social expression of a nation.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Powerful, Expression, People

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• Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Eye, Knowing Nothing, Names

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• Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Holiness, Plans

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", (p. 369), 1922.

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• Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every description, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part of the globe, and are so strikingly indicative of the intelligence, character, and taste of the inhabitants, that they possess in themselves a great peculiar interest for the mind.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Art, Humble, Character

  Andrew Jackson Downing, Henry Winthrop Sargent (1859). “A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America: with a view to the improvement of country residences”, p.318

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• In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Successful, Race, Niche

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