
[2006, Gnosis: Divine Wisdom, World Wisdom, 36, 978-1-933316-18-5]
Human being, Intellect
Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 25
[2006, Gnosis: Divine Wisdom, World Wisdom, 36, 978-1-933316-18-5]
Human being, Intellect
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“Will Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.”
No. 266 (4 January 1712)
The Spectator (1711-1714)
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 103
Howard Stern on Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN (January 18, 2011)
“The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.”
Source: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 2, part 2 at resologist.net
As quoted in "Ingmar Bergman Confides in Students" http://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/08/movies/ingmar-bergman-confides-in-students.html New York Times, May 7, 1981.
Book II, Ch. 5, p. 345, as quoted in Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment (1992) edited by Michael Cyril William Hunter and David Wootton, p. 99
De la sagesse (1601)
Context: All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a variety of elements, some of which seem so unworthy, sordid and at odds with man’s reason, that any strong and vigorous intelligence laughs at them; but others are so noble, illustrious, miraculous, and mysterious that the intellect can make no sense of them and finds them unpalatable. The human intellect is only capable of tackling mediocre subjects: it disdains petty subjects, and is startled by large ones. There is no reason to be surprised if it finds any religion hard to accept at first, for all are deficient in the mediocre and the commonplace, nor that it should require skill to induce belief. For the strong intellect laughs at religion, while the weak and superstitious mind marvels at it but is easily scandalized by it.
The Voyage into the Dark (1961); also in My Life and Views (1968), p. 154