The Apprentice, Series 7
Source: Social Justice in Islam (1953), p. 133
“There are metaphysical problems, which cannot be disposed of by declaring them meaningless.”
Source: Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance (1964), p. 209
Context: There are metaphysical problems, which cannot be disposed of by declaring them meaningless. For, as I have repeatedly said, they are "beyond physics" indeed and demand an act of faith. We have to accept this fact to be honest. There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that "belief" must be discarded and replaced by "the scientific method."
Speech rejecting the demands that he lead his people onto a reservation. (1876)
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
“Man proposes, and God disposes.”
Ordina l'uomo e Dio dispone.
Canto XLVI, stanza 35
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Man proposes, but God disposes.”
Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit.
Book I, ch. 19.
The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418)
“He has disposed that there should be”
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Context: True instruction is this: —to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole. (26).
A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1831)
