Sacrificed Quotes

“[L]et any one transport himself to the time when living, present miracles were believed in; … when they lived only in the rapturous prospect and hope of heaven … (for whatever heaven may be for them, so long as they were on earth, it existed only in the imagination); … a principle to which men joyfully sacrificed real life, the real world with all its glories; … It is no valid objection that miracles have happened, or are supposed to have happened, in the presence of whole assemblies: no man was independent, all were filled with exalted supranaturalistic ideas and feelings; all were animated by the same faith, the same hope, the same hallucinations.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity

“We needed a symbol into which to pour our fear and mistrust of the world, and we have chosen the wolf, and chosen it with passion and commitment.”
― Katherine Rundell, Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures