„Man must smash to bits his stolen, contrived Christian faith through powerful, enormous suffering of the heart, through an amazement that cannot be rejected. Through this, man becomes very small and despicable in his own eyes.“

Apostolic Letter, Salvifici Doloris (“redemptive suffering”), 1984
Quelle: http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1984/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_11021984_salvifici-doloris.html

Life and Death of Jason, Book xiii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 68.

Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Kontext: The analysis of the moral man through his actions, and of the intellectual man through his productions, seems to me calculated to form one of the most interesting parts of the sciences of observation, applied to anthropology.

The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
Quelle: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Quelle: 1854, Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio, Second series, Hungry Husbands. Often quoted as The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Also quoted in Chambers dictionary of Quotations, p. 321

Quelle: Eragon

Hotchkiss
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
Kontext: Religion is a great force — the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours. Instead of facing that fact, you persist in trying to convert all men to your own little sect, so that you can use it against them afterwards. You are all missionaries and proselytizers trying to uproot the native religion from your neighbor's flowerbeds and plant your own in its place. You would rather let a child perish in ignorance than have it taught by a rival sectary. You can talk to me of the quintessential equality of coal merchants and British officers; and yet you can't see the quintessential equality of all the religions.

Variante: I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
Quelle: Les Misérables

Quelle: The Odyssey

Cited in Pioneer, 9/11/1990. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1991). Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society.

Lecture XXX, Atheism alone a Positive View
Lectures on the Essence of Religion http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/lectures/index.htm (1851)

La vie d'un homme occupé à manger sa fortune devient souvent une spéculation; il place ses capitaux en amis, en plaisirs, en protecteurs, en connaissances.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part II: A Woman Without a Heart

Quelle: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch. 8 "The Time of Transition"

Quelle: Mysteries Of John (1946)

Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 221.

Mein Kampf review by Vigil Tangborn