Seneca Religion Quotes & Sayings

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship. — Seneca The Younger

Unlike Woody Allen, I would be happy to be part of any (poetry) club that would have me. — Denise Duhamel

If poetry is what you live for then do it write. — R.M. Engelhardt

Embrace your struggles. They are making you the person you were meant to be. — Avijeet Das

You say there is but one way to worship the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it? Chief Red Jacket, Seneca Indian Chieftain — George Washington

Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Seneca.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. — Seneca.

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study. — Esperanza Spalding

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. An Irishman, seeing me making a minute in the fields, took it for granted that I was calculating my wages. If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or scared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for - business! I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau

Still, the farther hills remained as untouched as the sea; high, remote, arid, dark and sterile, poisoned with the sun. — Patrick O'Brian

If literature matters today, it is chiefly because it seems to many conventional critics one of the few remaining places where, in a divided, fragmented world, a sense of universal value may still be incarnate; and where, in a sordidly material world, a rare glimpse of transcendence can still be attained. — Terry Eagleton

What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper. — Seneca The Younger

Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life. — Jeffrey Tucker