Sacred Things quotes
20 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us."
"Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is."
"Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen."
"It is only the sacred things that are worth touching"
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