“Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.” IfsKindArtEndsBeautyIdolsAestheticAllegianceSeductiveBeauty Of LifeDegeneratesCaricaturesFetishRest Of Life Book:Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age Source: Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age
“When we try to imagine what God is like we must of necessity use that-which-is-not- God as the raw material for our minds to work on; hence whatever we visualize God to be, He is not, for we have constructed our image out of that which He has made and what He has made is not God. If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.” IfsTryingMindMadeEndsUseHandsImagineMaterialsIdolsOffensiveRaw Materials Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.” MenEndsEnoughUniverseSidesWorshipIdolsSuperstitiousStrangeness Author:Jeanette Winterson
“All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayHumansEndsSelfFormInterestPleasureResultsAcceptingOffersSlaveryProfitBlockIdeologySelfishnessIdolsFlashReplacedFleetingSelf InterestWay Of ThinkingIntoxicationChoose LifeRespect Life Author:Pope Francis