It is all over with priests and gods when man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the forbidden as such – it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, seed of all sin, the original sin. This alone is morality. ‘Thou shalt not know’ – the rest follows.
Sin Quotes
No man treats a car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say ‘you are a wicked motorcar and I shall not give you any more petroleum until you go.’ He attempts to find out what […]
First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.
In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
Sin is geographical.
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin – a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was […]
To be honest, as a humanist I don’t much like the idea of sin. But given the choice of being powerless in the face of God or an impotent client of a therapist, I side with the Church. Therapeutic definitions of addiction elevate the sense of human powerlessness to a level unimaginable in medieval times. […]
He that plots secret crime his soul within – Is straightaway guilty of the actual sin.
Wou’d I were free from this restraint, Or else had hopes to win her; Wou’d she cou’d make me a saint, Or I of her a sinner.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
