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Authors: Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, What I owe to the Ancients • Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols-- "Maxims and Arrows" • Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols---"Maxims and Arrows" • William Hung, 2004 American Idol Auditions

Movies: Eidolon (2004) • Far Far Away Idol (2004) • Idolmaker (1980) • World Idol (2003)

"Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand." »Frederick the Great
"Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself." »Sir Arthur Eddington
"idol worship is worshiping, adoring, gossiping, boasting or even being caught-up with anything that is created." »Vijay Samuel Benjamin
"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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