Veneration Quotes

• What is deeper than respect and love? That’s what we felt: veneration.

  Wynton Marsalis

  And Love, Love And Respect, Deeper

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• A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Prayer, Men, Battle

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• Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Littles, Mystery, Charisma

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• Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sight, Experience, Generations

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• Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Atheist, Honesty, Thinking

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• Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Helping, Montessori

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• Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.

  Gustav Mahler

  Fire, Ashes, Tradition

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• The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

  Immanuel Kant

  Wisdom, Respect, Dignity

  Immanuel Kant, Lewis White Beck (1976). “Critique of practical reason, and other writings in moral philosophy”, Taylor & Francis

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• Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.

  Antonin Artaud

  Beautiful, Reading, May

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.78, Grove Press

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• It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Hatred, Increase

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.4

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• [Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.

  Howard Zinn

  Children, Generations, Burning

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.646, Seven Stories Press

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• Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

  George Jean Nathan

  Real, Patriotic, Political

  Testament of a Critic bk. 1 (1931)

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• The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Depth, Mary

  "Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works" translated by William J. Cole, Volume 10, (p. 313),

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• Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

  Antonin Artaud

  Reading, Way, Poet

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.78, Grove Press

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• No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

  Isaac Barrow

  Men, Speak, Should

  Isaac Barrow (1887). “Sermons on Evil-Speaking”, p.26, Library of Alexandria

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• Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience? To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness.

  James Madison

  Rights, Names, America

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Law, White, Judging

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• While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

  Friedrich Schiller

  God, Self, Demand

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered.

  Samuel Johnson

  Law, Firsts, Reason

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.270

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• With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Perfection, Soul

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• Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mind, Mirth, Conscience

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

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• My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, My Own, Conversion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.57, A&C Black

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• We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.

  Stephen Fry

  Hero, Air, Valhalla

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• No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Advice, Opinion

  Samuel Johnson (1756). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.82

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• I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

  George Washington

  Love, Country, Voice

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.268

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