#veneration

...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.... ↗

— John Geddes

#clive-bell #einstein #era #genius #uncreative

And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#burns #heroes #i #important #other

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#above #arbitrary #estate #often #principles

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#hath #him #his #man #preserved