Constantin Brunner (1862–1937) German philosopher
Source: Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921), p. 113
“So, loath to suffer mute.
We, peopling the void air,
Make Gods to whom to impute
The ills we ought to bear.”
— Matthew Arnold, book Empedocles on Etna
Act I, sc. ii
Empedocles on Etna (1852)
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Pt. II, Ch. 1
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Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States
1963 interview, used in The Century of the Self (2002)
Context: My argument with so much of psychoanalysis, is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness, when in fact, possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people's suffering; that the problem is not to undo suffering or to wipe it off the face of the earth but to make it inform our lives, instead of trying to cure ourselves of it constantly and avoid it, and avoid anything but that lobotomized sense of what they call "happiness." There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It's part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad.
“We cannot, as a people, remain mute and free.”
Gerry Spence (1929) American lawyer
Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 19 : The Benevolent Dictator, p. 233
“Our image of God, whom we can’t see, is deeply affected by people, whom we can see.”
John Townsend (1952) Canadian clinical psychologist and author
Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)
Albert Pike book Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. I : Apprentice, The Twelve-Inch Rule and Common Gavel, p. 1
Context: Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself. It is destruction and ruin. It is the volcano, the earthquake, the cyclone; — not growth and progress. It is Polyphemus blinded, striking at random, and falling headlong among the sharp rocks by the impetus of his own blows.
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Upon slaughtering some dogs to feed other dogs and themselves
Sydpolen (The South Pole) (1912)
Nouri al-Maliki (1950) Prime Minister of Iraq
As quoted in Iraq's new unity government sworn in, CNN, 20 May 2006, 2 December 2011 http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/20/iraq.main/index.html,.