“Life-saving information tends to come in local dialects.”
David Fleming (1940–2010) British activist
Lean Logic, (2016), p. 191, entry on Harmless Lunatics http://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/lean-logic-surviving-the-future/
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bishop of Milan; one of the four original doctors of the Ch… 339–397Related quotes
“Your logic may be good,
But dialectics never saved a soul.”
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Source: Savonarola (1881), Frà Domenico in Act II, sc. ix; p. 197.
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Kunnumpuram, Kurien, 2011 “Theological Exploration,” Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies 14/2 (July-Dec 2011)
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“A married man seeks to please his wife and not God.”
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“May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.”
Millard Fillmore (1800–1874) American politician, 13th President of the United States (in office from 1850 to 1853)
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1840s
“If it is pleasing to observe in nature her desire to paint God in all his works”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Conversation on Epictetus and Montaigne
Context: If it is pleasing to observe in nature her desire to paint God in all his works, in which we see some traces of him because they are his images, how much more just is it to consider in the productions of minds the efforts which they make to imitate the essential truth, even in shunning it, and to remark wherein they attain it and wherein they wander from it, as I have endeavored to do in this study.
Gardiner Spring (1785–1873) American clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 241.