#divine

What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature? ↗

— Max Muller

#ask #creator #creature #divine #emitted

Caress the detail, the divine detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#detail #divine

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service." ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #could #dance #dancer #divine

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things. ↗

— Origen

#bent #devoted #divine #god #life

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse. ↗

— John Osborne

#god #heroes #high #ideas #made

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dissolved #divine #genius #her #hollywood

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#beings #divine #human #human beings #known

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#becomes #before #divine #finite #god

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#backed #divine #even #expect #faith

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting