Quotes on False Gods

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.