Julien Benda (1867–1956) French essayist
Source: Treason of the Intellectuals (1927), pp. 126-127 (regarding homo faber)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday
Julien Benda (1867–1956) French essayist
Source: Treason of the Intellectuals (1927), pp. 126-127 (regarding homo faber)
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Answer to Lyman Abbott (unfinished), responding to Abbott, Lyman. "Flaws in Ingersollism." The North American Review 150, no. 401 (1890): 446-457.
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) United States Baptist theologian
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.1 The Historical Roots of Christianity the Hebrew Prophets, p. 4
Flann O'Brien (1911–1966) Irish writer
Page 37
The Best of Myles (1968)
“I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.”
Je vous aime,
Beaucoup moins que mon Dieu, mais bien plus que moi-même.
Polyeucte, act IV, scene iii.
Polyeucte (1642)
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
Letter to John Armstrong, 11 March 1782, in Ford's Writings of George Washington (1891), vol. XII, p. 111. This is frequently attached to part of a letter to Brigadier-General Nelson of 20 August 1778, as in this 1864 example from B. F. Morris, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States, pp. 33-34:
I am sure that there never was a people who had more reason to acknowledge a divine interposition in their affairs than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency which was so often manifested during the Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them. He must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.
1780s
“There is no God any more divine than Yourself.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.112