No. 62, st. 2.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)
“It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.”
Variant translation: There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General
“Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.”
An Atheist Manifesto
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“There's more evil in the charts than in an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.”
Part Troll (2004)
Cardanus Comforte (1574)
Context: Better it is to have the worst, than none at all. for example we see, that houses are nedefull, such as can not possese & stately pallaces of stone, do persuade themselves to dwell in houses of timber and clap, and wanting them, are contented to inhabite the simple cotage, yea rather than not to be housed at all refuse not the pore cabbon, and most beggerly cave. So necessarie is this gift of consolacion, as there livith no man, but that hathe cause to embrace it. for in these things better is it to have any than none at al.
Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola
The Imam said, "Yes, wider than [the space] between the heaven and the earth."
Views on free will
Source: [Nasr & Leaman, The History of Islamic Philosophy, February 1, 1996, Routledge, 978-0415056670, 256-257, 1, http://www.amazon.com/History-Islamic-Philosophy-Routledge-Philosophies/dp/0415056675]
