Preface (J. B. Baillie translation), § 10
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
“A deep, deep sadness. You know there's a theologian named Michael Novack who's quoted as saying that 'a community is better off losing its opera house, or its museum, or its CHURCH' — here's a theologian speaking — 'than its ball team'. Brooklyn has never been the same since the Dodgers were taken away.”
In Ken Burns' 1994 documentary Baseball discussing his reaction to and opinion of the relocation of the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles for the 1958 MLB season.
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Branch Rickey
(1881–1965) American baseball player and coach
On the relocation of the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles; quoted in Bob McGee, <i>The Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field and the Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers</i> (Rutgers University Press, 2005, ISBN 0813536006), p. 294 http://books.google.ca/books?id=BOZyd7v1cDAC&pg=PA294&dq=%22public+without+the+quasi
“What expertise can theologians bring to deep cosmological questions that scientists cannot?”
Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 79
Michel Henry
(1922–2002) French writer
Michel Henry, Material Phenomenology, Fordham University Press, 2008, p. 118-119
Books on Phenomenology and Life, Material Phenomenology (1990)
Roberto Clemente
(1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
As quoted in "The Scoreboard" by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Tuesday, May 10, 1955), p. 31
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“Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”
Meister Eckhart
(1260–1328) German theologian
“Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.”
Gregory Benford
book
Timescape
Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 31 (p. 360)
Context: You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life’s pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with — no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.
John Leonard
(1939–2008) American critic, writer, and commentator
Interview with Bill Moyers http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_leonard.html, Now, PBS (28 November 2003)
Context: The culture as a whole is losing its individual notes, its diversity. And this is… it's not only sad. It's devastating. It's devastating because routine language means routine thought. And it means unquestioning thought. It means if I can't — if new words cannot occur to me and new image does not occur to me, then what I'm doing is I'm simply repeating what I've heard.
And what we hear from an overpowering cultural force and the forces of homogenization, what we hear is sell, sell, buy, buy. That's it. That is the function.
Source: Witness (1952), p. 25
Mark Kingwell
(1963) Canadian philosopher
Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 2, Rights And Duties, p. 38.