Hero Cult

Famous quotes containing the words hero and/or cult:

    “So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    “The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.”
    —Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)