Benjamin Jowett citations

Benjamin Jowett, né le 15 avril 1817 à Londres, et mort le 1er octobre 1893 à Headley Park, Hampshire, est considéré comme un des plus grands enseignants du XIXe siècle. Il était renommé pour ses traductions de Platon. Il a étudié à la St Paul's School de Londres et Balliol College. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. avril 1817 – 1. octobre 1893
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Benjamin Jowett: Citations en anglais

“We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.”

Actually from one of John Dewey's lectures, reprinted in his Reconstruction in Philosophy (2004), p. 96.
Misattributed

“[The office of the interpreter] is to read Scripture like any other book.”

On the interpretation of Scripture http://www.bible-researcher.com/jowett1.html

“Doubt comes in at the window, when Inquiry is denied at the door.”

On the interpretation of Scripture http://www.bible-researcher.com/jowett1.html

“Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.”

In conversation with Logan Pearsall Smith. Reported in Smith's Unforgotten Years (1938) p. 169.
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