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“Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.”
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American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904–1987Related quotes
John of St. Samson
(1571–1636)
From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.
“If such were the will of God, what wonder that so many had turned to the devil?”
Marion L. Starkey
(1901–1991) American historian & writer
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 21, “Village Purge” (p. 248)
“the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love”
Source: Les Fleurs du Mal
“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
Anatole France
(1844–1924) French writer
“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.”
André Weil
(1906–1998) French mathematician
As quoted in Mathematical Circles Adieu (Boston 1977) by H Eves
“They must needs go whom the Devil drives.”
Miguel de Cervantes
(1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 4.
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), Chapter 2, page 87 (New World Library, 2008)
Context: (...) we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best, with only tentative, impromptu, an not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern 'enlightened' individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence.