“You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.”
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
229H:3:2
Sermons
Yohanan Melamed's Maaselech. Alle Verk, vi. 181.
“You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.”
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
229H:3:2
Sermons
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Wording in Ideas and Opinions: The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.
1930s, Religion and Science (1930)
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Aristotle, 13.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics
William G. Boykin (1948) Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
Source: Man to Man: Rediscovering Masculinity in a Challenging World (2020), p. 5
Zhang Chao (1650–1707) writer
As quoted in Lin Yutang's With Love and Irony (1945), 'In Defence of Gold Diggers', p. 221
“When help is needed it is only God, Who has the real power to help, and He provides it.”
Mirza Masroor Ahmad (1950) spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Eid and Friday Sermons <br class="br">Source: Total Trust and Dependence on Allah https://www.alislam.org/friday-sermon/2014-11-28.html, Friday Sermon November 28th, 2014
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) Polish-born Jewish-American author
Nobel lecture (1978)
Context: Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him. In their despair a number of those who no longer have confidence in the leadership of our society look up to the writer, the master of words. They hope against hope that the man of talent and sensitivity can perhaps rescue civilization. Maybe there is a spark of the prophet in the artist after all.
“The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.”
Tom Robbins book Another Roadside Attraction
Another Roadside Attraction (1971)
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
Healing
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Source: Awareness: A de Mello Spirituality Conference in His Own Words
Antonie Pannekoek (1873–1960) Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist
Section 1.1, "Labor"
Workers Councils (1947)