“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Imagination
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Well-being
"We loved a love that was more than love."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Love
"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Adversity
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Love
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy