Collection of previously unused quotes from #123

This post is a collection of previously unused quotes from notebook #123 (1.3.22 to 2.20.22). There are 10 quotes listed below alphabetically by last name.

Augustine of Hippo (342 - 430 AD, philosopher)

"You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation." (Sermons)

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002, sociologist)

"The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences." (The Intellectual Class Struggle, 2001)

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600, philosopher)

"There are countless suns and countless Earths all rotating round their suns in exactly the same way as the seven planets of our system... Take comfort, the time will come when all men will see as I do." (Quoted in The Discovery of Nature by Albert W. Bettex)

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955, priest)

"...love is the threshold of another universe. Beyond the vibrations with which we are familiar, the rainbow-like range of its colors is still in full growth." (The Evolution of Chastity, 1934)

Claude von Clausewitz (1780-1831, army officer)

"Thus it has come about that our theoretical and critical literature, instead of giving plain, straightforward arguments in which the author at least always knows what he is saying and the reader what he is reading, is crammed with jargon ending at obscure crossroads where the author loses its readers." (On War, 1831)

Donald Davidson (1917-2003, philosopher)

"In quotation not only does language turn on itself, but it does so word by word and expression by expression, and this reflexive twist is inseparable from the convenience and universal applicability of the device. Here we already have enough to draw the interest of the philosopher of language." (Quotation, 1979)

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962, novelist)

"It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect." (Siddhartha, 1922)

Marcel Proust (1871-1922, novelist)

"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is." (In Search of Lost Time, Vol. V: The Captive, 1923 posthumous)

George Santanyana (1863-1952, philosopher)

"On fact, the whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and good, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices." (The Sense of Beauty, 1896)

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859, diplomat)

"We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country." (The Old Regime and the Revolution, 1858) 

Collection of previously unused quotes from #124

This post is a collection of previously unused quotes from notebook #124 (1.20.22 to 2.21.22). There are 26 quotes listed below alphabetically by last name.

Theodor Adorno (1903-1969, philosopher)

"Order, however, is not good in itself. It would be so only as a good order." (Culture Industry Reconsidered, 1963)

Antisthenes (c. 446 - 366 BC, philosopher)

"The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education." (Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus)

Kenneth Burke (1897-1993, poet)

"You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his." (A Rhetoric of Motives, 1969)

Cicero (106 - 43 BC, statesman)

"For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions." (On the Laws)

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758, theologian)

"Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead." (Quoted in Burning Words of Brilliant Writers by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert)

Empedocles (c. 494 - 434 BC, philosopher)

"...learning improves the sprit." (On Nature)

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814, philosopher)

"Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent..." (The Vocation of the Scholar, 1794)

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, activist)

"Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between two communities in South Africa can be removed." (Indian Opinion, 1903)

Gorgias (c. 483 - 375 BC, philosopher)

"Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pain." (AZQuotes.com)

R. M. Hare (1919-2002, philosopher)

"What the principle of utility requires of me is to for each man affected by my actions what I wish were done for me in the hypothetical  circumstances that I were in precisely his situation..." (Ethical Theory and Utilitarianism, 1982)

Hypatia (c. 350 - 415 AD, philosopher)

"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." (AZQuotes.com)

Isocrates (436 - 338 BC, rhetorician)

"For just as we see the bee settling on the all the flowers, and sipping the best from each, so also those who aspire to culture ought not to leave anything untasted, but should gather useful knowledge from every source." (To Demonicus)

Jesus (c. 6 BC - 33 AD, religious leader)

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first great commandment. And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." (Matthew 22:37-40, KJV)

Laozi (c. 6th - 4th centuries BC, philosopher)

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is." (Tao Te Ching)

Jeremy Lent (writer)

"If you think other humans are inherently cooperative, you'll approach a person differently than if you think that, ultimately, everyone is selfish and competitive." (Adopting a New Worldview That Is Intellectually Sound, 2021)

Nelson Mandela (1918-2013, activist)  

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." (Long Walk to Freedom, 1995)

Mozi (c. 475 - 221 BC, philosopher)

"The wise man who has charge of governing the empire should know the cause of disorder before he can put it in order. Unless he knows its cause, he cannot regulate it." (Mozi)

Protagoras (490 - 420 BC, philosopher)

"There are two sides to every question." (Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius)

Mother Teresa (1910-1997, saint)

"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted." (Quoted in Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge)

Muhammad (570 - 632 AD, religious leader)

"Do not turn away a poor man... Even if you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you... God will bring you near him on the Day of Resurrection." (Al-Timidhi, Sunni Hadith)

Philo (c. 20 BC - 50 AD, philosopher)

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." (AZQuotes.com)

Xenophanes (c. 570 - 478 BC, philosopher)

"Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances." (AZQuotes.com)

Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC - 65 AD, statesman)

"All art is but imitation of nature." (Moral Letters to Lucilius)

Sextus Empiricus (2nd century BC)

"To every argument, an equal argument is opposed." (AZQuotes.com)

Malala Yousafzai (1997-now, activist)

"Education is one of the blessings of life - and one of its necessities." (Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, 2014)

Zeno of Citium (c. 334 - 262 BC, philosopher)

"That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason." (Quoted in De Nature Deorum by Cicero)