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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

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🇬🇧Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy

1861–1947

"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

"One who liberates his country by killing a tyrant is to be praised and rewarded."

"Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment."

"Don’t hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son."

"Out of love, God becomes man. He says: "See, here is what it is to be a human being."

"If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them."

"Justice is what love looks like in public."

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Julian of Norwich

Literature

"It is God’s will that we have great regard to all His deeds that He hath done, but evermore it needeth us to leave the beholding what the Deed shall be."

"Articles by Karen Armstrong on the 5th Estate blog"

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🇺🇸Rousas John Rushdoony

Philosophy

1916–2001

"An employer therefore has a property right to prefer whom he will, and he can prefer whom he will in terms of color, creed, race, or national origin."

"All national rulers, no matter what the nation or the political regime, lord it over their subjects. There can be no political power without tyranny."

"In our time the science of Sufism is desolate."

"The sinners … did not even have the consolation of feeling they were in God’s good books. The educated people told them that they were displeasing to God and “they ought to know."

"The moment you meet a person of another religion whom you consider to be as good, as intelligent, and as religious as you are, you will never be the same."

"In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion."

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🇺🇸Harry Emerson Fosdick

Politics

1878–1969

"He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."

"Henri Nouwen on Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son"

"From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices."

"The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is."

"The search for truth presupposes the growth of philia. This philia must find an atmosphere in which it can grow, and this atmosphere cannot be taken for granted as an out-growth of civic virtue."

"The supreme and only Judge of the universe stands before the tribunal of an earthly judge."

"Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Volume 3: Tatian, Theophilus, And The Clementine Recognitions"

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🇬🇧William Montgomery Watt

"Jesus Christ is not hurried; He calmly rules the storm, and holds the helm of this world in His hand, and it will not drift away from the course designated by the infinite authority and power of God."

"So is there no kind of life more wicked than that of mercenary Souldiers, who without any respect had to the equity of the Cause, fight only for plunder and pay."

"There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love—every man works his oar voluntarily!"

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🇮🇪Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1694–1746

"Whoever voluntarily undertakes the necessary office of rearing and educating, obtains the parental power without generation."

"The attack and claim which are so unmistakable in the New Testament were muted and neutralized by the official recognition, the cultural integration and the social control of Christianity as a middle-class institution."

"He is one of the noblest conquerors who carries on a successful warfare against his own appetites and passions, and has them under wise and full control."

"If we go back to the intention had in common, we find in it the decision to look upon the whole of consciousness primarily as "false" consciousness."

"Since Religion is calculated for reasonable Creatures, 'tis Conviction and not Authority that should bear Weight with them."

"The good life is the best preparation for bad times."

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🇺🇸Gary North (economist)

Economics

Christian reconstructionism

1942–2022

2 quotes

🇺🇸George Fisher (musician)

Literature

1827–1909

"Kiss the ass of metal, you fucking Jerk-offs!"

"The difference between the radicals and the other groups is often only this: that the radicals fail to recognize what they are doing, and continue to speak as though they were separated from the world."

"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. This is what makes the trade of historian so attractive."

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Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

Religion

1815–1881

"We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff."

"The sinner must feel far worse before he ever has a right to feel any better."

"The soul which stops at creatures delays the course of the voyage by which it moves toward God; and by desiring to enjoy them, it proportionately deprives itself of the enjoyment of God."

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