“Religion in modern society is only artificially kept together and upheld by the Church and by those Governments to whose social or private interest it is that it should flourish.””
“In vain does the disguised traveller inwardly rebel against the influences and impressions which are wearing away his real self. The impressions of the past lose more and more their hold on him until they fade away, leaving the traveller hopelessly struggling in the toils of his own fiction, and the rôle he had assumed soon becomes second nature with him.””
Ármin Vámbéry was a Hungarian philologist, traveler, and writer, renowned for his extensive knowledge of Central Asia and the Middle East. Born in 1832 in a Jewish family in Hungary, he developed a pa...