“Charity creates a multitude of sins.”
Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (ca. 1270) http://dhspriory.org/thomas/QDdeVirtutibus2.htm#6
“Charity creates a multitude of sins.”
Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
"Heidelberg Disputation: Thesis 7" (1518), http://bookofconcord.org/heidelberg.php#7
Hermann Adler (1839–1911) Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911
Condemning usury. p. 849
Quoted in Joseph H. Hertz, The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (One-volume edition)
Franz Marc (1880–1916) German painter
Quote, (August 1914); as quoted in Franz Marc, horses, ed. Christian von Holst, Hatje Cantz Publishers, (undated), 15 December 1914, p.34
by the outbreak of World War 1. in August 1914 the animals had disappeared in Marc's art. Only colours and forms – the abstract – had to evoke the spiritual]
1911 - 1914
“Charity is a good way of reminding God that if we can do it, He can.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.”
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 214
“Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.”
Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949) British writer and journalist
"Rudyard Kipling", p. 31
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)
Robert Anton Wilson book Prometheus Rising
Source: Prometheus Rising (1983), Ch. 1 : The Thinker & The Prover, p. 25
Context: Comparative religion and philosophy show that the Thinker can regard itself as mortal, as immortal, as both mortal and immortal (the reincarnation model) or even as non-existent (Buddhism). It can think itself into living in a Christian universe, a Marxist universe, a scientific-relativistic universe, or a Nazi universe—among many possibilities.
As psychiatrists and psychologists have often observed (much to the chagrin of their medical colleagues), the Thinker can think itself sick, and can even think itself well again.
The Prover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one law only: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.
To cite a notorious example which unleashed incredible horrors earlier in this century, if the Thinker thinks that all Jews are rich, the Prover will prove it. It will find evidence that the poorest Jew in the most run-down ghetto has hidden money somewhere.