Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
Children are the keys of paradise.
Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue.
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.
Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
The only paradise is paradise lost.
If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth.
There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.
When they're growing up, if you tell kids God exists, they believe it. It's the same with the techno-cultural society. They believe in it - that it's the road to paradise, that there are no limits.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
