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“During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.”

“There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order.”

Soul Care Spirit Order Imagination Church Function Curiosity University Intellect Enthusiasm Immortal Priests Who Cares Props Immortal Soul

Book:The progress of a biographer

Source: The progress of a biographer

“Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.”

Religion Function Priests

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.”

People Want Feels Seems Artist Names Position Source Offers Authority Comfortable Function Range Priests Consolation Surrogates

Author:Alex Johnston

“I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions.”

Thinking Made Country Building Wall Function Contrary Ministers Priests Theologian Building Walls

Author:Joe Biden

“In Islam, there is no priesthood and each person stands before God, like in the daily prayers, without an intermediary. That's in contrast to Christianity, where during the Eucharist, a priest has to officiate and the priest functions as a link - at least in Catholic Christianity - between the laity and God.”

Persons Prayer Christianity Function Catholic Islam Priests Links Contrast Eucharist Priesthood Daily Prayer

Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.”

Wisdom Today Artist Function Prophet Priests Pilgrim Alchemist Hermits

Book:The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton

Source: The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton

“Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.”

Men States Individual Social Existence Function Aim Soldier Producers Priests Divided Scholar Joints Statesmen Human Existence

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures

“The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it's principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and the gaoler - to whom must be invariably added the trader in lies, be he priest of schoolmaster, remunerated or protected by the government to enslave minds and make them docilely accept the yoke.”