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«We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.»
Author: Nan Fairbrother
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perverse
«We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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antiquities, assault, bare, bombs, enervated, enervating, erected, foundations, perverse, ritual, The Foundations, toll, tolls
«Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.»
«Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.»
«The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.»
«They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.»
«The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God?s right of love over his life and soul. The object of our possession becomes smaller than ourselves, and without acknowledging it in so many words the bigoted sectarian has an implicit belief that God can be kept secured for certain individuals in a cage which is of their own make. In a similar manner the primitive races of men believe that their ceremonials have a magic influence upon their deities. Sectarianism is a perverse form of worldliness in the disguise of religion; it breeds a narrowness of heart in a greater measure than the cult of the world based upon material interest can ever do. For undisguised pursuit of self has its safety in openness, like filth exposed to the sun and air. But the self-magnification with its consequent lessening of God that goes on unchecked under the cover of sectarianism loses its chance of salvation because it defiles the very source of purity.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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God
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bigoted, ceremonial, consequent, Cult of the, defiles, deities, disguise, exposed, filth, implicit, implicit in, lessening, material possession, meek, narrowness, perverse, pious, races, sectarian, sectarianism, secured, similar, The Cult, unchecked, undisguised, worldliness
«We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
defects, frivolous, incurables, perverse
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