Quote by Chinese Proverb

A maker of idols is never an idolater.

A maker of idols is never an idolater.

Summary

This quote implies that the person who creates or manufactures idols is not necessarily someone who worships or idolizes these objects themselves. It suggests that the act of creating idols is more about craftsmanship and artistic expression rather than genuine adoration. Thus, the quote challenges the assumption that those who make idols automatically venerate them, emphasizing that the creators can maintain a distinct separation between their art and their personal beliefs or values.

Topics

Religion

By Chinese Proverb

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

Work

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Art

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when o

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Gustave Flaubert

Hope

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. The

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

Entertainment

It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk th

It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.

Catherynne M. Valente

Love Relationships Lovers Intimacy

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

Music

Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this pic

Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, and noticed that someone had carved that GOD HATES FAG, which, aside from being a grammatical nightmare, is absolutely ridiculous. So I'm changing it to 'God Hates Baguettes.' It's tough to disagree with that. Everybody hates baguettes.

Man

Live not by expectation, but by inspiration.

Live not by expectation, but by inspiration.

Louise Philippe Dulay

Life Inspirational Expectation Inspiration Live

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these D

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

Danica McKellar

Dad

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

Benjamin Tucker

Alone

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

Fashion

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

Power