Charles-Francois Dupuis quotes

“The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.”
-- Charles-Francois Dupuis

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“A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.”
-- Charles-Francois Dupuis

Source : Charles François Dupuis (2016). “The Origin of all Religious Worship”, p.270, Lulu.com

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“The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see in it a real prediction of the future, which every one has explained after his own fashion, and in which they have always found what they wanted, namely anything but that, what the book contained.”
-- Charles-Francois Dupuis

Source : Charles François Dupuis (2016). “The Origin of all Religious Worship”, p.372, Lulu.com

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“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“No one man is superior to the game.”

“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”

“I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.”

“Order, thou eye of action.”

“What's my favourite food? One you order out.”

“A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.”

Source : Keep the Faith, Baby! "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power" (1967)

“There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.”

Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.80, Broadview Press

“Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.”

“The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.”