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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. -- George Jean Nathan
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
That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. -- Albert Einstein
The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart -- Martin Luther
I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love. -- George Washington
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
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
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
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. -- Jonathan Swift
Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation! -- Blaise Pascal
He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
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
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
But where did this veneration of childbirth come from? I missed that meeting. Childbirth is wonderful, childbirth is a miracle. Wrong. It's no more a miracle than eating food and a turd coming out your ass. -- Bill Hicks
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
Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown. -- Oliver Goldsmith
[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
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
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
Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate. -- John Kennedy Toole
And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns. -- Len G. Murray
Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time. -- Eugene Kennedy
Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration. -- Baltasar Gracian
Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes. -- Gustav Mahler
What is deeper than respect and love? That's what we felt: veneration. -- Wynton Marsalis
No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration. -- Samuel Johnson
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. -- Francis Bacon
One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. -- Thomas Carlyle
It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad. -- Samuel Johnson
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. -- Charles Stross
Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual. -- Theo van Doesburg
But he has gone, A nation's memory and veneration, Among the radiant, ever venturing on, Somewhere, with morning, as such spirits will. -- John Masefield
My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible -- Mahatma Gandhi
Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it. -- Fanny Burney
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse. -- Egerton Brydges
We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it. -- James Gibbons
Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing. -- Ava Gardner
I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity. -- John Quincy Adams
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power. -- John Tillotson
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment." -- Jorge Luis Borges
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

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