Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 116
“Not without reason did he who had the right to do so speak of the foolishness of the cross.”
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
Context: Not without reason did he who had the right to do so speak of the foolishness of the cross. Foolishness, without a doubt, foolishness. And the American humorist, Oliver Wendell Holmes, was not altogether wide of the mark in making one of the characters in his ingenious conversations say that he thought better of those who were confined in a lunatic asylum on account of religious mania than of those who, while professing the same religious principles, kept their wits and appeared to enjoy life very well outside the asylums. But those who are at large, are they not really, thanks to God, mad too? Are there not mild madnesses, which not only permit us to mix with our neighbors without danger to society, but which rather enable us to do so, for by means of them we are able to attribute a meaning and finality to life and society?
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Not without reason did he who had the right to do so speak of the foolishness of the cross." by Miguel de Unamuno?
Miguel de Unamuno 199
19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864–1936Related quotes
Thomas Brooks
(1608–1680) English Puritan
Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 230.
Pope John Paul I
(1912–1978) 263rd Pope of the Catholic Church
Angelus (24 September 1978) http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_i/angelus/documents/hf_jp-i_ang_24091978_en.html
Context: People sometimes say: "we are in a society that is all rotten, all dishonest." That is not true. There are still so many good people, so many honest people. Rather, what can be done to improve society? I would say: let each of us try to be good and to infect others with a goodness imbued with the meekness and love taught by Christ. Christ's golden rule was: "do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself. Do to others what you want done to yourself." 'And he always gave. Put on the cross, not only did he forgive those who crucified him, but he excused them. He said: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." This is Christianity, these are sentiments which, if put into practice would help society so much.
Hans Arp
(1886–1966) Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist
Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories. p. 327 (1958)
1950s
Florence Nightingale
(1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
On Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, as quoted in Victorian England : Aspects of English and Imperial History, 1837-1901 (1973) by Lewis Charles Bernard Seaman, p. 108
“He who did well in war just earns the right
To begin doing well in peace.”
Robert Browning
(1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Luria, Act ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
George Galloway
(1954) British politician, broadcaster, and writer
The Express http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/407371/Question-Time-Nigel-Farage-blasts-Alex-Salmond-for-not-condeming-hostile-Edinburgh-scenes During an interview on Question time with Nigel Farage condemning the hostility shown by the Scottish people June 14, 2013
Jane Goodall
(1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist
Reported in Janelle Rohr, Animal rights: opposing viewpoints (1989), p. 100; Jane Goodall and Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe (1999), p. 6. Occasionally misreported in truncated form, as "The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves", in, e.g., quote honored on XOEarth eco money http://xoearth.org/jane-goodall/