“Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.” ArtSoulMatterInspirationReligiousAttitudeEnvironmentSubjectsElementsDrawsArt IsMiracleAncestorTangibleSubject Matter Author:Umberto Boccioni
“An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a man its schizophrenia"... Many people hear voices without suffering any of the debilitating and dysfunctional effects associated with schizophrenia, some treat these as sources of inspiration of develop religious ideas around them, others become mediums or occultists.” PeopleMenIdeasInspirationSufferingSpeakVoiceReligiousPrayerEffectsSourceJokesTreatsMediumsSchizophreniaSource Of InspirationOld Jokes Author:Peter J. Carroll
“Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a mouth large enough to swallow any church, and from that time forward the religious people will be citing that remark of the politician to substantiate the inspiration of the Scriptures.” PeopleEnoughInspirationSpeakWishPresidentChurchReligiousLibertyAtheismPoliticianMouthsStonesCornersPositive AtheismSentencesScriptureRemarksCitingAmerican Liberty Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man--the highest inspiration and the highest life of every soul which it inhabits; and, furthermore, that the soul which it inhabits can have no high issue which is not essentially religious.” MenIdeasSoulInspirationChristianReligionReligiousIssuesHighestConsequence Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS