Part 2: The Advent of the Prophets; Opening sentence
On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy
“A savior or a prophet is a person who comes with a simple idea, but uses it to change the world”
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Richard Stallman
(1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
1990s, Why "Free Software" is better than "Open Source" (1998)
“What most impresses the people around the prophet is the personality change he has undergone.”
Peter Farb
(1929–1980) American academic and writer
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: What most impresses the people around the prophet is the personality change he has undergone.... when stress reaches a certain intensity in the culture, only certain individuals feel called forth to become prophets while most do not. In any event, the prophet has emerged in a new cultural role, and his personality is liberated from the stress that called his response into being in the first place. Immune to the stress under which his brethren still suffer, he must appear to them supernatural.
Elton Mayo
(1880–1949) Australian academic
Elton Mayo, cited in: Edward William Bok (1947), Ladies' Home Journal.Vol. 64, p. 246
Edith Stein
(1891–1942) Jewish-German nun, theologian and philosopher
Collected Works Vol. IV. Part 1 : Before the Face of God, Ch.1 : "On the History and Spirit of Carmel" http://www.karmel.at/ics/edith/stein_9.html
Context: What is meant by "the Law of the Lord"? Psalm 118 which we pray every Sunday and on solemnities at Prime, is entirely filled with the command to know the Law and to be led by it through life. The Psalmist was certainly thinking of the Law of the Old Covenant. Knowing it actually did require life-long study and fulfilling it, life-long exertion of the will. But the Lord has freed us from the yoke of this Law. We can consider the Savior's great commandment of love, which he says includes the whole Law and the Prophets, as the Law of the New Covenant. Perfect love of God and of neighbor can certainly be a subject worthy of an entire lifetime of meditation. But we understand the Law of the New Covenant, even better, to be the Lord himself, since he has in fact lived as an example for us of the life we should live. We thus fulfill our Rule when we hold the image of the Lord continually before our eyes in order to make ourselves like him. We can never finish studying the Gospels.
Philip Doddridge
(1702–1751) English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter
Published 1755, Hymns, "Hark, the Glad Sound", Chambers Dictionary of Quotations, p. 278
Jacqueline Woodson
(1963) American writer
On writing in an industry that typically prefers White writers in “ Jacqueline Woodson: 'I don't want anyone to feel invisible'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/25/jacqueline-woodson-national-book-awards-invisible in The Guardian (2014 Nov 25)
