Revelation Quotes

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Wisdom, Philosophy

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela

Society, Children, Soul

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Freedom, Thought

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Voltaire

Power, Feeling, Thinking

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James

Idea, Individual, Force

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard Dawkins

Faith, Work, Children

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce

Age, Experience, Light

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
Richard Dawkins

Book, Ignore, Off

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
Ansel Adams

Love, Reality, Thought

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
Eileen Caddy

Life, Work, Live

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
E. O. Wilson

God, Important, Made

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.
Deepak Chopra

Friends, Whole, Idea

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
Damian Lewis

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
Toni Morrison

Everything, Black, Find

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Great, Character

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
Emile M. Cioran

Nothing, Pride, Discover

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
Eudora Welty

Time, Happen, Find

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
Vladimir Nabokov

Revolution, Perilous

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
Denis Diderot

Bad, Different, Confuse

A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.
Orson Pratt

God, True, Tell

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
Carlos Santana

Best, Spiritual, Call

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Parents, Become, Child

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
Max Ernst

Time, Reality, Either

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.
Philip Glass

Music, Structure, Rhythm

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
Karl Barth

Faith, God, Nothing

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
Jupiter Hammon

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
Boris Pasternak

Life, Great, Art

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
William Ellery Channing

Life, Nature, God

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.
William S. Paley

Made, Able, Miracles

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