“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.” FactsSpiritualScienceDeathDesireReligionFallPsychologyAtheismDyingStrengthIllusionAtheistAgnosticPsychiatryAtheisticReligion In Society Book:Major Works Source: Major Works
“There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.” WayRealDesireDyingGeniusBattleFindingsArmourReal Genius Author:Danielle Trussoni
“The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.” FirstsPlayRememberDesireFiveFourDying Author:Alicia Keys
“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.” ThinkingLooksSoulLastsMotherDesireDiesCultureWishLosesCommonEffortHalfDarknessSuccessfulFireChildhoodDyingCreationProduceColdCivilizationGravesDawnGrayRomeWearyWombReluctantRomanticismDaylightClassicism Book:The decline of the West Source: The decline of the West