— Francis Bacon English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author 1561 - 1626
Of Heresies
Meditationes sacræ (1597)
„The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties“
— Mosè Maimonide, libro The Guide for the Perplexed
Origine: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12
Contesto: The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit.
Mosè Maimonide6
filosofo, rabbino e medico ebraico 1138 - 1204Citazioni simili
„Science only goes so far, and then comes God.“
— Nicholas Sparks, libro Le pagine della nostra vita
Variante: Science only goes so far, then comes God.
- Noah Calhoun
Origine: The Notebook
— Julius Streicher German politician 1885 - 1946
To Leon Goldensohn, April 6, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
„I have found God, but he is insufficient.“
— Henry Miller, libro Tropico del Cancro
Origine: Tropic of Cancer
— Ramakrishna Indian mystic and religious preacher 1836 - 1886
As quoted in Hindu Psychology : Its Meaning for the West (1946) by Swami Akhilananda, p. 204
— Napoleon I of France French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769 - 1821
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
— Gardiner Spring American clergyman 1785 - 1873
Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 106.
— Martin Buber German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian 1878 - 1965
Origine: For The Sake of Heaven (1945), p. 44
— Clive Staples Lewis, libro Mere Christianity
Book II, Chapter 3, "The Shocking Alternative"
Mere Christianity (1952)
Contesto: Among these Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. He claims to forgive sins. He says He has always existed. He says He is coming to judge the world at the end of time. Now let us get this clear. Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd about it. But this man, since He was a Jew, could not mean that kind of God. God, in their language, meant the Being outside of the world, who had made it and was infinitely different from anything else. And when you have grasped that, you will see that what this man said was, quite simply, the most shocking thing that has ever been uttered by human lips.
„Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.“
— Samuel Johnson English writer 1709 - 1784
Letter from Johnson to John Taylor, 18 August 1763. The Yale Book of Quotations edited by Fred R. Shapiro, pg 400.
— Lawrence Lessig, libro Free Culture
Free Culture (2004)
Contesto: Common sense is with the copyright warriors because the debate so far has been framed at the extremes — as a grand either/or: either property or anarchy, either total control or artists won't be paid. If that really is the choice, then the warriors should win.
The mistake here is the error of the excluded middle. There are extremes in this debate, but the extremes are not all that there is. There are those who believe in maximal copyright — "All Rights Reserved" — and those who reject copyright — "No Rights Reserved." The "All Rights Reserved" sorts believe that you should ask permission before you "use" a copyrighted work in any way. The "No Rights Reserved" sorts believe you should be able to do with content as you wish, regardless of whether you have permission or not.... What's needed is a way to say something in the middle — neither "all rights reserved" nor "no rights reserved" but "some rights reserved" — and thus a way to respect copyrights but enable creators to free content as they see fit. In other words, we need a way to restore a set of freedoms that we could just take for granted before.
— Charles Caleb Colton British priest and writer 1777 - 1832
Vol. I; I
Lacon (1820)
— Dean Koontz, libro Watchers
Part 1, Chapter 7.8; Garrison Dilworth on the responsibility to help keep Einstein free
Watchers (1987)
— Ali al-Rida eighth of the Twelve Imams 770 - 818
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol.1, p. 23.
Religious Wisdom
„Reason, in fact, is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason — nothing which He has not willed should be handled and understood by reason. All, therefore, who are ignorant of God, must necessarily be ignorant also of a thing which is His, because no treasure-house at all is accessible to strangers. And thus, voyaging all the universal course of life without the rudder of reason, they know not how to shun the hurricane which is impending over the world.“
Quippe res dei ratio quia deus omnium conditor nihil non ratione providit disposuit ordinavit, nihil [enim] non ratione tractari intellegique voluit. [3] Igitur ignorantes quique deum rem quoque eius ignorent necesse est quia nullius omnino thesaurus extraneis patet. Itaque universam vitae conversationem sine gubernaculo rationis transfretantes inminentem saeculo procellam evitare non norunt.
— Tertullian Christian theologian 155 - 220
De Paenitentia (On Repentance), 1.2-3
