“What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.”
Irving Kristol (1920–2009) American columnist, journalist, and writer
Wall Street Journal, September 11, 1975.
1970s
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
“What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.”
Irving Kristol (1920–2009) American columnist, journalist, and writer
Wall Street Journal, September 11, 1975.
1970s
Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) German philosopher
Source: Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen (1971), p. 5
“Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.”
Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi.
Dante Alighieri book Vita Nuova
Source: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter I (tr. Barbara Reynolds); of love.
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
Context: What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later. The modern mind sometimes tends to balk at the thought of these dichotomies being inventions and says, "Well, the divisions were there for the Greeks to discover," and you have to say, "Where were they? Point to them!" And the modern mind gets a little confused and wonders what this is all about anyway, and still believes the divisions were there.
But they weren't, as Phædrus said. They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are in that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic Gods they replaced.
Sean Sellers (1969–1999) American murderer
But that was a false image of God. The way Anton LaVey saw God also affected his view of Satan.
Open Letter To Satanists
“Dealing with God is a reality.”
George Müller (1805–1898) German-English clergyman
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Third Part.
Third Part of Narrative