Set/religion

Famous quotes containing the words set and/or religion:

“Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)