Abomination

An abomination is something worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen.

Quotes

 * Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
 * The Bible, Book of Proverbs 12:22, King James Version.


 * The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
 * Jorge Luis Borges, in "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv", in A Universal History of Iniquity (1935); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998); Cf. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940).


 * One of the s of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.
 * Jorge Luis Borges, in  (1940).
 * Variant translation: For one of those gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.


 * We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves.
 * Joseph Campbell,  (1949), Chapter 1


 * It is an abomination to my king.
 * Debate between Silver and Copper (middle to late ).


 * Compare not thyself with others, but with Me. If thou dost not find Me in those with whom thou comparest thyself, thou comparest thyself to one who is abominable.
 * Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1669) § 555.


 * The wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit... When riches are gained, follow desire, for riches will not profit if one is sluggish.
 * Ptahhotep, The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE), Maxim no. 11.


 * Coveting and spying are abominations to Ninurta.
 * Sumerian proverb, Collection III at,.