Original Sin Quotes - Page 5

• The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

  Georgia Harkness

  Atheism, Doctrine, Sin

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• There is no original sin. It's all been done before.

  Louis Dudek

  Done, Sin, Originals

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• Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Sins Not, Shadow, Novelists

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• ...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Men, Oil

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• The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Roots, Evil, Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2374, Manonmani Publishers

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• The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.

  Tom Anderson

  Children, Government, Income

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• Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

  Henri Matisse

  God, Faith, Hope

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• Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Dog, Four

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.221, Diderot Publishing

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• Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

  Timothy Leary

  Garden, Eden, Sin

  Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications

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• True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Civilization, Doe

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• Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Laughing, Humanity

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

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