Quotes with theological

  • I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.

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  • Karl Marx A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Denis Diderot Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • W. H. Auden Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Auguste Comte Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
    Auguste Comte
    French philosopher (1798 - 1857)
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  • Ben Miles English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
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  • Asa Gray I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Aldous Huxley If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Eliza Farnham Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice.''
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill McKibben When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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