The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Remark, attributed in John Gordon Stewart Drysdale and John James Drysdale, The Protoplasmic Theory of Life (1874), p. 279 (note).
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Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician
Enoch Powell, Joseph Chamberlain (Thames and Hudson, 1977), p. 151
1970s
Sidney Hook (1902–1989) American philosopher
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 3
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“Religious education is demanded by the nation generally and by the instincts of human nature.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume II, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), p. 505
Immanuel Kant book Critique of Pure Reason
B 730; Variant translation: All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Variant: All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Source: Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)
