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Quotes About Zoroaster

Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers
~ Zoroaster
I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.
~ Eugenio Montale
Zoroaster preached that the universe was divided between darkness and light, between good and evil, between truth and falsehood, between life and death. The universe split into these opposing camps at the moment of creation, they had been locked in struggle ever since, and the contest would endure to the end of time.
~ Tamim Ansary
A collection of legends exist that are well-known in Armenia and Syria. This collection is entitled: 'The Bees.' The legends were later revised by Mar Salamon, a Nestorian Archimandrite who lived in the thirteenth century, Possibly the collection of legends refers to a mysterious energy transmitted in symbolic design from the time of Zoroaster.
~ Laurence Galian
Ere Babylon was dust,The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child,Met his own image walking in the garden,That apparition, sole of men, he saw.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley