#idols

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good. ↗

— Meg White

#good #good opportunity #idols #kinds #meet

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like. ↗

— Meg White

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The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#darwin #film #freud #growing #growing up

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols. ↗

— John Calvin

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Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

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We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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My idols are all older. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#older