Famous quotes containing the words aggregate, excess and/or demand:
“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”
—Ernst Cassirer (18741945)
“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”
—Aeschylus (525456 B.C.)
“That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and soberthis demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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