What did W. Somerset Maugham mean by: I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense. - W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom Copy
+ We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. Somerset Maugham, Writing, 0 - W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
+ The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. Somerset Maugham, Elements, Essentials, Love, 0 - W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
+ To write simply is as difficult as to be good. Feraz Zeid, June 19, 2023December 12, 2023, W. Somerset Maugham, Crafts, Difficulty, Writing, 0 - W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
+ The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them. Feraz Zeid, September 25, 2023December 26, 2023, W. Somerset Maugham, Beauty, Ideals, 0 - W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
+ It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. Somerset Maugham, Enough, Past, 0 - W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
+ Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. Somerset Maugham, Art, Purpose, 0 - W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
+ When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. Somerset Maugham, Kindness, Youth, 0 - W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
+ The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. Somerset Maugham, One Day, 0 - W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
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 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
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. - Jeremy Bentham Philosopher · England
