William Adams (1706–1789) Fellow and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.
Vol. 2, p. 531
Testimonies for the Church (1855 - 1868)
William Adams (1706–1789) Fellow and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.
“Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.”
Peter Mere Latham (1789–1875) English physician and educator
Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians - Page 179 by Linda Hammer Burns, Sharon N. Covington - Medical - 2000.
Collected Works
“The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.”
Brother Lawrence (1614–1691) French Christian monk
From the "Fourth Conversation" in The Practice of the Presence of God at Gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13871.
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects of Confucius:
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
Seventh Thesis
Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 150
The Book of Disquiet
Original: O homem perfeito do pagão era a perfeição do homem que há; o homem perfeito do cristão a perfeição do homem que não há; o homem perfeito do budista a perfeição de não haver homem.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Speech of 1877-06-24
1870s
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Sam Harris, Adventures in the Land of Illness http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/adventures-in-the-land-of-illness (May 26, 2014) <br class="br">2010s