Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order
Francis of Assisi, Rule of 1221, Rule 11 http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/wosf/wosf06.htm/ - That the Brothers ought not to speak or detract, but ought to love one another. <br class="br">Disputed, Preach the gospel, and if necessary, use words.
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.”
Izaak Walton book The Compleat Angler
Part I, ch. 5.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Zen Masters : The Wisdom of Frank Zappa (2003)
“Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes
L. P. Jacks (1860–1955) British educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
Context: The human mind loves the bondage of words and is apt, when freed from one form of their tyranny, to set up another more oppressive than the last.
The highest function of philosophy is to enforce the attitude of meditation and therewithal restrain the excessive volubility of the tongue. To us it seems that the reflective thinker wins his greatest victories when by what he says he compels us to recognise the relative insignificance of anything he can say. His task is not to capture Reality, but to free it from captivity.
