Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Sermon IV : True Hearing
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Part 4: Rebellion and Art
The Rebel (1951)
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Sermon IV : True Hearing
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
"Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer."
Mais toute la nature nous crie qu'il existe; qu'il y a une intelligence suprême, un pouvoir immense, un ordre admirable, et tout nous instruit de notre dépendance.
Voltaire quoting himself in his Letter to Prince Frederick William of Prussia (28 November 1770), translated by S.G. Tallentyre, Voltaire in His Letters (1919)
Citas
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
Third Thesis
Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Reminiscences (1881), referring to his father, James Carlyle.
Sometimes quoted as "Man was created to work, not to speculate, or feel, or dream; Every idle moment is treason". The second of those two clauses in fact comes from Thomas Arnold The Christian Life (1841), Lecture VI.
1880s
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
Justification By Faith Alone (1738)
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) British philosopher
Reported by Brand Blanshard in 'Francis Herbert Bradley', Journal of Philosophy (1925).
“Sacred art helps man find his own center, that kernel whose nature is to love God.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher
[2007, Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts, World Wisdom, 28, 978-1-933316-42-0]
Spiritual life, Sacred art
Alexander Bryan Johnson (1786–1867) United States philosopher and banker
The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position: (1841)
Context: Man soon finds what he wants to find. If he cannot find it otherwise, he creates it for his special enjoyment: for instance, if a man wants to see a ghost, he need only promulge his wish some night around a decaying fire, with a few alarmed and shocked listeners. Then let him ascend in the dark to a remote chamber, carefully looking over his shoulder every few moments; and if he will not see a ghost, he will feel as if he saw one, and that will be tantamount thereto.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and …
Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters
Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)