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«The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.»
Author: John Muir
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, destroyed, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, heathenism
«I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, intolerance, shown, tolerance
«People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.»
Author: Stephen King
(Writer)
| Keywords:
desk, desks, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, jar, jarring, jars, small stuff, stuff, writing desk
«The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Art,
Immortality,
Morality,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
finer, grosser, immoral, immorality, on the contrary, relatively
«Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
difference, exaggeration, exaggerations, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, one-person
«I am convinced that the teaching of the church is in theory a crafty and evil lie, and in practice a concoction of gross superstition and witchcraft»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
church, concoction, convinced, craftiest, crafty, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, in practice, in theory, superstition, teaching, theory, The Church, witchcraft
«So our Lord God commonly gives riches to those gross asses to whom He vouchsafes nothing else»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
asses, commonly, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, Lord's table, riches, vouchsafe, vouchsafed, vouchsafes
«Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.»
«One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdities, credit, credulity, fanaticism, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, loaded, obtained, priestcraft, scripture, vulgar