Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.
It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year's cars. They fished in their change purses for nickels while the superstars flashed credit cards. Today, values have changed. The new object of veneration is not money on the hoof but money in the bank - and the dorks all have it.
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.
Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.
We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.
A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.
What is deeper than respect and love? That’s what we felt: veneration.
My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible
I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.
Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.
