#wors

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. ↗

— William Gaddis

#comics #gets #live #more #time

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. ↗

— Martin Gardner

#any #continually #creation #god #hardly

Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance. ↗

— Roberto Goizueta

#everything #going #happen #lose #once

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#drinking #thinking #worse #you

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come. ↗

— Jack Gould

#always #come #reassuring #something #supremely

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#come #gets #i #i think #lots

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse. ↗

— Mike Gravel

#died #dying #entire #know #more

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter. ↗

— John Grierson

#corporate #cultivation #fact #in fact #lines

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process. ↗

— Larry Harvey

#also #avoids #cultural #find #give