Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
“My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.”
— Charlie Chaplin, book My Autobiography
My Autobiography (1964)
Context: Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.
Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities — a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.
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Mark Driscoll (1970) American pastor
Rebel's Guide to Joy http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/rebels-guide-to-joy/the-rebels-guide-to-joy.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet
Journal Intime (1882), Quotes used in the Introduction by Ward
Context: There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling except in the infinite; for the soul except in the divine. Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me. There is nothing non-exclusive but the All; my end is communion with Being through the whole of Being.
“It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist
I'm not Stiller (1955)
“Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.”
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“The only sin is the sin of being born.”
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
As quoted in "Samuel Beckett Talks About Beckett" by John Gruen, in Vogue, (December 1969), p. 210
Comparable to "The tragic figure represents the expiation of original sin, of the original and eternal sin of him and all his 'soci malorum,' the sin of having been born. 'Pues el delito mayor / Del hombre es haber nacido.'" from his essay Proust, quoting Pedro Calderón de la Barca's La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream).
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Source: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
As quoted inThe A-V Magazine Vol. 89, No. 1 (January 1981), p. 18, and The Extended Circle : A Dictionary of Humane Thought (1985) by Jon Wynne-Tyson, p. 75; this has been cited to "Harper's Magazine (1890)" but no occurence prior to the 1981 appearance has been located.
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