Quotes About Petrifaction

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

No doubt, wherever public life and its law of equality are completely victorious, wherever a civilization succeeds in eliminating or reducing to a minimum the dark background of difference, it will end in complete petrifaction and be punished, so to speak, for having forgotten that man is only the master, not the creator of the world.

Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever would it come to them to be more alive than they were then in their seeming petrifaction.

Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.