„Die Utopien sind oft nur vorzeitige Wahrheiten.“
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Geschichte der Girondisten
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Alphonse De Lamartine
Geburtstag: 21. Oktober 1790
Todesdatum: 28. Februar 1869
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Alphonse Marie Louis Prat de Lamartine war ein französischer Schriftsteller und Politiker. Sein Platz in der Literaturgeschichte ist hauptsächlich der eines Lyrikers.
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„In der Politik heißt drohen, ohne zu treffen, so viel wie sich eine Blöße geben.“
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Geschichte der Girondisten
„Das Ideal ist die Wahrheit, von weitem gesehen.“
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Geschichte der Girondisten
„Das Königstum ist die nach dem Bilde Gottes gemachte Regierung.“
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Geschichte der Girondisten
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„Ich habe Gott überall erblickt aber niemals begriffen.“
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Poetische Meditationen
„Philosoph, Redner, Verkünder, Gesetzgeber, Krieger, Eroberer von Ideen, Wiederhersteller vernunftgemäßer Lehren, eines Kults ohne Bilder, Gründer zwanzig irdischer und eines geistigen Reiches, das ist Mohammed. Nach allen Maßstäben, an denen menschliche Größe gemessen werden kann: Welcher Mensch ist je größer gewesen?“
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Histoire De La Turquie, Paris, 1854, Bd. II, S. 276-277
„Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.“
— Alphonse de Lamartine
The Lake (1820), st. 9
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„My mother took me to town with her, and made me pass, as if by accident, through the yard of a slaughter-house. I saw some men, their arms naked and besmeared with blood, knocking a bull in the head; others cutting the throats of calves and sheep, and separating their still heaving limbs. Streams of smoking gore ran along the pavement. An intense feeling of pity, mingled with horror, seized upon me. I asked to be led away quickly. The thought of these scenes, the necessary preliminaries of one of those dishes of meat which I had so often seen on the table, made me take a disgust to animal food and inspired me with a horror for butchers.“
— Alphonse de Lamartine
Book IV, Note VIII, p. 61
„Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.“
— Alphonse de Lamartine
"L'Isolement", Méditations Poétiques (1820)
„Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.“
— Alphonse de Lamartine
Méditations Poétiques (1820), Sermon 2
„If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad?“
— Alphonse de Lamartine
Context: Never has a man set for himself, voluntarily or involuntarily, a more sublime aim, since this aim was super human; to subvert superstitions which had been imposed between man and his Creator, to render God unto man and man unto God; to restore the rational and sacred idea of divinity amidst the chaos of the material and disfigured gods of idolatry, then existing. Never has a man undertaken a work so far beyond human power with so feeble means, for he Muhammad had in the conception as well as in the execution of such a great design, no other instrument than himself and no other aid except a handful of men living in a corner of the desert. Finally, never has a man accomplished such a huge and lasting revolution in the world, because in less than two centuries after its appearance, Islam, reigned over the whole of Arabia, and conquered, in God's name, Persia, Khorasan, Transoxania, Western India, Syria, Egypt, Abyssinia, all the known continent of Northern Africa, numerous islands of the Mediterranean Sea, Spain and part of Gaul.
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and souls... his forbearance in victory, his ambition, which was entirely devoted to one idea and in no manner striving for an empire; his endless prayers, his mystic conversations with God, his death and his triumph after death; all these attest not to an imposture but to a firm conviction which gave him the power to restore a dogma. This dogma was twofold, the unity of God and the immateriality of God; the former telling what God is, the latter telling what God is not; the one overthrowing false gods with the sword, the other starting an idea with words.
Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
Alphonse de Lamartine, Histoire de la Turquie (1854), Vol. I, pp. 276-277
