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Friedrich Schleiermacher

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Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)

“The universe creates its own observers and admirers, and we only wish to intuit how that happens as far as it allows itself to be intuited.”

  • From Friedrich Schleiermacher’s On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers, translated by Richard Crouter.

 

Peter Tudebode

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Peter Tudebode (Participant in the First Crusade)

Food complaints written in 1097 around Antioch:
“A small loaf of bread cost a bezant of gold, and of the price of wine I shall not speak; there was not even a jug of it… The belly of one goat was worth two solidi; the tail of a ram varied in price from three to nine denari. The tongue of a camel, which is small, brought four solidi.”

 

Dionysus

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Dionysus (from The Frogs by Aristophanes, c. 450-388 BCE)

“Can any of you guys tell me where Pluto happens to dwell? We’re Visiting firemen. Never been here before.”

  • This line, written by Aristophanes, was spoken by the godly character, Dionysus, while he was visiting the realm of the dead, ruled by Hades (or Pluto to the Romans). The quote comes from approximately line 435 of Aristophanes’ play, The Frogs.

 

Xunzi (Hsun Tzu)

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Xunzi / Hsun Tzu (312 – 230 BCE)

“Music embodies an unchanging harmony, while rites represent unalterable reason. Music unites that which is the same, rites distinguish that which is different; and through the combination of rites and music the human heart is governed.”

  • From Hsün Tzu’s Basic Writings (chapter/section 20), translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1963, 1996).

 

Kakuei Tanaka

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Kakuei Tanaka (1918-1993)

“Politics is power. Power is numbers.”

  • A saying attributed to the unscrupulous Japanese politician, Kakuei Tanaka (1918-1993). Our source here is Jacob M. Schlesinger’s book, Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Postwar Political Machine (Stanford University Press, 1997, 1999).

 

Soren Kierkegaard

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Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
“Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that which unites all human life is passion, and faith is a passion.”
  • From Soren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling (Problema 1), translated by Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (Princeton University Press, 1983).

Sir Winston Churchill

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Sir Winston Churchill
“The scales of Justice are vain without her sword. Peace must have her constables.”
  • From Winston Churchill’s “How to Stop War” (June 12, 1936), reprinted in Winston S. Churchill Step By Step: Political Writings 1936-1939 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015).

 

Saint Augustine of Hippo

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Saint Augustine of Hippo (c. 354-430)

“Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable?”

  • From St. Augustine’s Confessions (Book 8, chapter 11, section 27), in Christianity in Late Antiquity, edited by Bart D. Ehrman and Andrew S. Jacobs. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004.

 

Plato

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Plato ( c. 427-347 BCE)
“But the term ‘believers’ is inappropriate for those who are devoted to everything that is real: they should be called philosophers, shouldn’t they? Absolutely.”
  • From Republic (480a) by Plato, translated by Robin Waterfield (Oxford World’s Classics, 2008).

 

Buddha

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The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)
“Childish, unthinking people
go through life as enemies to themselves,
committing detrimental actions
that bear bitter fruit.”
  • From The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 5), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

 

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