Literary Quotes that Resonate?

[Riversong]

Anyone else a fan of Joseph Campbell? He wrote many books centering on comparative mythology. 

 

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Joseph Campbell

 

I also love this one from Fyodor Dostoevsky:

“I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”

 

 

[Insightful]

My all time favorite author is Robert Ingersoll.  So many quotable words...

This is a good one:

 

"Is there a God?

I do not know.

Is man immortal?

I do not know.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know. We can tell the truth, and we can enjoy the blessed freedom that the brave have won. We can destroy the monsters of superstition, the hissing snakes of ignorance and fear. We can drive from our minds the frightful things that tear and wound with beak and fang. We can civilize our fellow-men. We can fill our lives with generous deeds, with loving words, with art and song, and all the ecstasies of love. We can flood our years with sunshine — with the divine climate of kindness, and we can drain to the last drop the golden cup of joy."

[Riversong]

Wow- I love it!  Thanks