“The relationship between these two powers may be expressed by saying that the pope must keep for himself the golden key to the 'Celestial Paradise' and entrust to the emperor the silver key to the 'Terrestrial Paradise.'”
Source: Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power (1929), p. 73
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“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!”
Pt. II.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)
“Love is a golden key to let in Christ, and a strong lock to keep out others.”
Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 395.
65; a slight variant of this statement was later published in Parables and Paradoxes (1946):
The expulsion from Paradise is in its main significance eternal:
Consequently the expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in this world irrevocable, but the eternal nature of the occurrence (or, temporally expressed, the eternal recapitulation of the occurrence) makes it nevertheless possible that not only could we live continuously in Paradise, but that we are continuously there in actual fact, no matter whether we know it here or not.
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 5: "The Romantic Reaction"
“Graduate studies are not only, today, the key golden men.”
Chronicle "Interdit aux hommes" (Forbidden to men), by Doris Veillette-Hamel, Journal Le Nouvelliste, Sept. 14, 1974, page 17.
Chronicle "Forbidden to Men", 1974
