All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“The whole doctrine of original sin, the Fall, the vicarious atonement , the placation of the Almighty by blood”
“I can tell you that it is no game for children, and I will confess that, in spite of my nine campaigns, I felt myself turn pale when the first ball flashed past me. (Of cricket) Adventures of Gerard”
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. The White Company”
“What I hope is that, when the whole district is full of these little rifle clubs, we may then get a central range to which they could all adjourn. Bisley is very useful to men of means, but to the ordinary civilian rifleman it might as well be in the moon. We must have local ranges if the men are really to get the good of them. "A British Commando", The Strand Magazine (June 1901), referencing the NRA Headquarters at Bisley, Surrey and Conan”
“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”
“What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half”
“At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non”
“It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that distinguishes the philosopher . He must be like Sophocles ' Oedipus , who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further. Letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (November 1815) [1]”
“Obit anus, abit onus. The old woman dies, the burden is lifted. Statement Schopenhauer wrote in Latin into his account book, after the death of a seamstress to whom he had made court”
“The New Testament … must be in some way traceable to an Indian source: its ethical system, its ascetic view of morality, its pessimism, and its Avatar, are all thoroughly Indian. It is its morality which places it in a position of such emphatic and essential antagonism to the Old Testament, so that the story of the Fall is the only possible point of connection between the two. quoted in The Circle of Memory_ An Autobiography”
“It is the will of God,”
“The Christian System,”
“We forfeit three”
“If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man’s property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity. Unverified attribution noted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1993), ed. Suzy Platt, Library of Congress, p. 227”
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. Unverified attribution noted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1993), ed. Suzy Platt, Library of Congress, p. 39; compare Heraclitus : Nothing endures but change.”
“Christianity taught only what the whole of Asia knew already long before and even better. quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication.”
“How every line is of such strong, determined, and consistent meaning! And on every page we encounter deep, original, lofty thoughts, while the whole world is suffused with a high and holy seriousness. About Indian sacred scriptures. quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication.”
“Augustine, Augustine, quid quaeris? Putasne brevi immettere vasculo mare totum? "Augustinus, Augustinus, what are you trying to do? Do you believe to be able to pour the whole sea in a little jar? As quoted in the letter of Augustine to saint Cyril of Jerusalem related to the treaty titled On the Trinity”
“Noli foras ire, in teipsum redi, in interiore homine habitat veritas. Et si tuam naturam mutabilem inveneris, trascende et teipsum . Do not go outside yourself, return to yourself: truth dwells in the interiority of man and, if you find that your nature is changeable, transcend yourself too . As quoted in De vera religione , XXXIX, 72”
“I am sending you a Paraclete who will teach you about the course of the sun and moon .”
“I will send you the Paraclete who will teach you about the course of the sun and moon.”
“The superfluities of the rich are the necessaries of the poor. They who possess superfluities, possess the goods of others. Patrologia Latina , vol. 37, p. 1922”
“Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum. Love the sinner and hate the sin . Opera Omnia , Vol II. Col. 962, letter 211”
“Alternate translation: With love for mankind and hatred of sins (vices).”
“An unjust law is no law at all. On Free Choice Of The Will , Book 1, § 5”
“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. Enchiridion ( c. 420 ), Ch. 27”
“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. Tractates on the Gospel of John ; tractate XII on John 3:6”
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“Apres�rate lentamente.”
“Lo que se hace suficientemente bien, se hace bastante r�pido.”