Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) American teacher and writer
Source: The Echo of Greece (1957), Chapter 4, "The School Teachers"
“God is not some Aristotelian Unmoved Mover who merely contemplates upon himself. He is not merely a self-knowing God, but an other-loving God forever working through history for the establishment of His kingdom.”
1950s, Give Us the Ballot (1957)
Context: I conclude by saying that each of us must keep faith in the future. Let us not despair. Let us realize that as we struggle for justice and freedom, we have cosmic companionship. This is the long faith of the Hebraic-Christian tradition: that God is not some Aristotelian Unmoved Mover who merely contemplates upon himself. He is not merely a self-knowing God, but an other-loving God forever working through history for the establishment of His kingdom.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "God is not some Aristotelian Unmoved Mover who merely contemplates upon himself. He is not merely a self-knowing God, b…" by Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Martin Luther King, Jr.658
American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci… 1929–1968Related quotes
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) German philosopher
I.
Outline of the Doctrine of Knowledge (1810)
Context: The Doctrine of Knowledge, apart from all special and definite knowing, proceeds immediately upon Knowledge itself, in the essential unity in which it recognises Knowledge as existing; and it raises this question in the first place — How this Knowledge can come into being, and what it is in its inward and essential Nature?
The following must be apparent: — There is but One who is absolutely by and through himself, — namely, God; and God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life. He can neither change nor determine himself in aught within himself, nor become any other Being; for his Being contains within it all his Being and all possible Being, and neither within him nor out of him can any new Being arise.
Vincent de Paul (1581–1660) French priest, founder and saint
As quoted in Reflection for November 5 in Saint Companions for Each Day (1986) by A. J. M. Mousolfe & J. K. Mousolfe, p. 417
“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Ram Swarup (1920–1998) Indian historian
Source: On Hinduism (2000)
“God is not dead — He is merely unemployed…”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) American cartoonist
A response to Time magazine's cover story of 8 April 1966, which asked, "Is God Dead?" This, in turn, came from Nietzsche's famous quote, "God is dead." It appears on page 96, the final panel in The Pogo Poop Book (1966).
