Pagan Quotes

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled. (Israel Zangwill)
Great God I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. View quote
William Wordsworth
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. View quote
Lord Byron
The Hellenistic world was international to a degree, polyglot and inspired by many religious faiths. ...the Greek ideals were pagan and the Hellenistic age witnessed their death struggle against Asiatic and Egyptian mysteries, on the one side, and against Judaism, on the other. View quote
George Sarton
Behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car. View quote
Wallace Stevens
He had fought like a pagan who defends his religion. View quote
Stephen Crane
I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan. View quote
Timothy Leary
He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football.... Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport. View quote
Camille Paglia
Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best” American higher criticism. View quote
Camille Paglia
The idea that emotion can be separated from sex is a Christian illusion, one of the most ingenious but finally unworkable strategies in Christianity's ancient campaign against pagan nature. (Camille Paglia)
Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian. View quote
Ouida
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love. View quote
Victoria Woodhull
Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us. View quote
John Calvin
I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. "Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!”. View quote
Jack London
Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom? View quote
Herman Melville
Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
b>England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating – the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain. View quote
Karl Marx
Europe has resurrected its pagan gods. (Subhash Kak)
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
We... believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art. View quote
Irving Stone
Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities. View quote
Carl E. Olson
Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals. View quote
Dave Hickey