What did Herman Melville mean by: Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me. - Herman Melville Author · USA Copy
+ See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Grows, Prejudice, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Christian, Drinking, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Dishonor, Honor, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Invisible, Spheres, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Character, Evil, War, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Ambitious, Disease, Greatness, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Infidelity, Vote, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Ships, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist. - William Gurnall Clergyman · England
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poet · France
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence… True Christians are made to be slaves. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
