
“Freedom from lower qualities is an essential qualification required for spiritual progress.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 95
"Letter to the Editor" The Times (22 July 1920) http://www.telstudies.org/writings/letters/1919-20/200722_the_times.shtml
Context: Whether they are fit for independence or not remains to be tried. Merit is no qualification for freedom. Bulgars, Afghans, and Tahitans have it. Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.
“Freedom from lower qualities is an essential qualification required for spiritual progress.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 95
“…Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.”
For What Reason do so Many Swedes Emigrate Every Year?, 1765.
“Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.”
1840s, On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (1841)
[2013, From the Divine to the Human, World Wisdom, 71, 978-1-936597-32-1]
Spiritual life, Faith
“The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“There is merit without attainment, but no attainment without some merit.”
Il y a du mérite sans élévation, mais il n'y a point d'élévation sans quelque mérite.
Maxim 400.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”
“Failure in any given subject is the first qualification towards becoming a teacher.”
Articles
No. 231 (24 November 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London on 24th May 1870. See Education in India for major portion of the speech.