— George Sarton American historian of science 1884 - 1956
Preface.
A History of Science Vol.1 Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece (1952)
„All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.“
— Mosè Maimonide, libro The Guide for the Perplexed
Origine: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.11
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— Maimónides, libro The Guide for the Perplexed
Origine: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.10
— Maimónides, libro The Guide for the Perplexed
Origine: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.10
— William Hazlitt English writer 1778 - 1830
Burke and the Edinburgh Phrenologists in The Atlas (15 February 1829); reprinted in New Writings by William Hazlitt, William Hazlitt and Percival Presland Howe (ed.), (2nd edition, 1925), p. 117; also reprinted in The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 20: Miscellaneous writings, (J.M. Dent and Sons, 1934), (AMS Press, 1967), p. 201
— Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church 1225 - 1274
De Potentia (On Power) q. 3, art. 6, ad 4
— Maimónides, libro The Guide for the Perplexed
Origine: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.25
— Maimónides, libro The Guide for the Perplexed
Origine: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12
— Charles Babbage mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer 1791 - 1871
" Passages from the life of a philosopher https://archive.org/stream/passagesfromlif01babbgoog#page/n10/mode/2up", The Belief In The Creator From His Works, p. 400-401
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)
Contesto: There remains a third source from which we arrive at the knowledge of the existence of a supreme Creator, namely, from an examination of his works. Unlike transmitted testimony, which is weakened at every stage, this evidence derives confirmation from the progress of the individual as well as from the advancement of the knowledge of the race.
Almost all thinking men who have studied the laws which govern the animate and the inanimate world around us, agree that the belief in the existence of one Supreme Creator, possessed of infinite wisdom and power, is open to far less difficulties than the supposition of the absence of any cause, or of the existence of a plurality of causes.
„That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence.“
— Maimónides, libro The Guide for the Perplexed
Origine: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.13
— Joseph Addison politician, writer and playwright 1672 - 1719
No. 101 (26 June 1711), this has sometimes been quoted as "It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age".
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Contesto: If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. In a word, the man in a high post is never regarded with an indifferent eye, but always considered as a friend or an enemy. For this reason persons in great stations have seldom their true characters drawn till several years after their deaths. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunity of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.
It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons, and to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age into factions.
— Maimónides, libro The Guide for the Perplexed
Origine: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.10
— Posidonius ancient greek philosopher -135 - -51 a.C.
As quoted in Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca, Epistle LXXXVII (trans. R. M. Gummere)
— Fausto Cercignani Italian scholar, essayist and poet 1941
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
— Henri Barbusse French novelist 1873 - 1935
Light (1919), Ch. XVI - De Profundis Clamavi
Contesto: Men have gone towards each other because of that ray of light which each of them contains; and light resembles light. It reveals that the isolated man, too free in the open expanses, is doomed to adversity as if he were a captive, in spite of appearances; and that men must come together that they may be stronger, that they may be more peaceful, and even that they may be able to live.
For men are made to live their life in its depth, and also in all its length. Stronger than the elements and keener than all terrors are the hunger to last long, the passion to possess one's days to the very end and to make the best of them. It is not only a right; it is a virtue.
— Maimónides, libro The Guide for the Perplexed
Origine: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.25
