Source: Liber Kaos (1992), p. 96
Eliza Calvert Hall (1856–1935) American author, women's rights advocate and suffragist
Hall, Eliza Calvert. Aunt Jane of Kentucky. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1907. Aunt Jane's Album p. 82.
Hall, Eliza Calvert, and Melody Graulich. Aunt Jane of Kentucky. Masterworks of literature series. Albany, NY: NCUP, 1992. In the reprinted edition, Graulich discusses the quote on page xxiv.
Aunt Jane of Kentucky (1907)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Introduction <br class="br">1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836)
Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American philosopher and educator
Source: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 316
“Philosophy? I am a Christian and a Democrat. That's all.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
To a reporter who asked him to define this philosophy. Quoted in Alter, Jonathan The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope https://books.google.com/books?id=ASmlaOHQNawC&pg=PA244&dq=fdr+i+am+a+christian+and+a+democrat&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDp7WquOjaAhXqxYMKHTFBDTgQ6AEIUDAH#v=onepage&q=fdr%20i%20am%20a%20christian%20and%20a%20democrat&f=false pg. 244 <br class="br">1930s
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) German philosopher
Interview (23 September 1966), published posthumously in Der Spiegel (31 May 1976), as translated by Maria P. Alter and John D. Caputo in The Heidegger Controversy : A Critical Reader (1991), edited by Richard Wolin.
Context: Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor. Only a god can save us. The sole possibility that is left for us is to prepare a sort of readiness, through thinking and poeticizing, for the appearance of the god or for the absence of the god in the time of foundering [Untergang] for in the face of the god who is absent, we founder. Only a God Can Save Us.
“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”
David Hume book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Section 1 : Of The Different Species of Philosophy
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
Context: Nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biases to draw too much, so as to incapacitate them for other occupations and entertainments. Indulge your passion for science, says she, but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which they involve you, and by the cold reception which your pretended discoveries shall meet with, when communicated. Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.
http://books.google.com/books?id=W2k6AAAAcAAJ&q=%22Musik+h%C3%B6here+Offenbarung+ist+als+alle+Weisheit+und+Philosophie%22&pg=PA193#v=onepage
As reported by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe, 28 May 1810.
Goethe's Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde: Seinem Denkmal, Volume 2, Dümmler, 1835, p. 193.
Variant: Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Pierre Hadot (1922–2010) French historian and philosopher
trans. Michael Chase, p. 272
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (2001)
Frank Honywill George (1921–1997) British psychologist
Source: The Brain As A Computer (1962), p.42 as cited in: Sica Pettigiani (1996) La comunicazione interumana. p.48
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
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