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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
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I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio On William Shakespeare -
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
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Judaism's campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.
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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
Man and Superman (1903) -
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
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'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
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