Home » Quote » Ambrose Bierce » „Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.“ „Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.“ — Ambrose Bierce Tags:DaughtersHopeNatureReligion Related quotes „Mayonnaise, n. One of the sauces that serve the French in place of a state religion.“ — Ambrose Bierce „I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.“ — Louisa May Alcott „It is, of course, quite true that there is a region in which science and religion do not conflict. That is the region of the unknowable.“ — H.L. Mencken „Beware:IgnoranceProtects itselfIgnorancePromotes suspicion.SuspicionEngenders fear.Fear quails,Irrational and blind,Or fear looms,Defiant and closed.Blind, closed,Suspicious, afraid,IgnoranceProtects itself,And protected,Ignorance grows.“ — Octavia E. Butler „Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.“ — Kristin Cast „Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.“ — Emil M. Cioran
„Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.“ — Ambrose Bierce Tags:DaughtersHopeNatureReligion