#eli

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it. ↗

— Francis Wright

#actions #belief #consequences #deduce #first

The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them. ↗

— Francis Wright

#conformity #creeds #hired #never #opinions

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention. ↗

— Francis Wright

#bounds #contention #error #ever #facts

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#believe #god #i #i believe #i believe in

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#capitalist #i #i believe #only #someone

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#belief #believe #happen #happens #makes

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that. ↗

— Fay Wray

#based #became #believed #doubt #go

My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that. ↗

— Fay Wray

#attitudes #book #different #fay #feelings

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything. ↗

— Link Wray

#believe #i #music #organised #politics

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music. ↗

— Link Wray

#god #i #indian #just #music