— Baruch Spinoza Dutch philosopher 1632 - 1677
Selected works, Spinoza and Buddha: Visions of a Dead God (1933)
„Yet no one could apparently be more unlike those who were especially named as the French philosophers of the eighteenth century. He remained reverential; he was never blasphemous, never blatant; he was careful to avoid giving needless pain or arousing fruitless discussion; and, while the tendency of his whole thinking was evidently removing him from the orthodoxy of the Church, his was a broader and deeper philosophy than that which was then dominant.“
Quelle: Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915), p. 167
Kontext: The French philosophy of the eighteenth century was in full strength. Those were the years in which Voltaire ruled European opinion, and Turgot could not but take account of his influence. Yet no one could apparently be more unlike those who were especially named as the French philosophers of the eighteenth century. He remained reverential; he was never blasphemous, never blatant; he was careful to avoid giving needless pain or arousing fruitless discussion; and, while the tendency of his whole thinking was evidently removing him from the orthodoxy of the Church, his was a broader and deeper philosophy than that which was then dominant.
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— Andrew Dickson White American politician 1832 - 1918
Quelle: Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915), p. 167
Kontext: The French philosophy of the eighteenth century was in full strength. Those were the years in which Voltaire ruled European opinion, and Turgot could not but take account of his influence. Yet no one could apparently be more unlike those who were especially named as the French philosophers of the eighteenth century. He remained reverential; he was never blasphemous, never blatant; he was careful to avoid giving needless pain or arousing fruitless discussion; and, while the tendency of his whole thinking was evidently removing him from the orthodoxy of the Church, his was a broader and deeper philosophy than that which was then dominant.
— Henry Adams journalist, historian, academic, novelist 1838 - 1918
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
— Plutarch ancient Greek historian and philosopher 46 - 127
40 Philip
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
— Herman Melville, buch Pierre: or, The Ambiguities
Bk. XXV, ch. 3
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)
— Benjamin Spock American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care 1903 - 1998
Quelle: Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior (1970), p. 13
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
1860s, A Short Autobiography (1860)
— Jonathan Swift Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667 - 1745
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift (1731), l. 459
Kontext: Yet malice never was his aim;
He lashed the vice but spared the name.
No individual could resent,
Where thousands equally were meant.
His satire points at no defect
But what all mortals may correct;
For he abhorred that senseless tribe
Who call it humor when they gibe.
— Vasyl Slipak Ukrainian opera singer 1974 - 2016
Guillaume Dussau, singer of Paris Opera, Ukrainians bid their last farewells to opera singer Vasyl Slipak, laid to rest in Lviv // UT.Ukraine Today. - 2016. - July 01. Fox News http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/02/18/ahmadinejad-obama-cant-spell-obama#ixzz1pkEko0Id/
— Tom Stoppard, buch Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Quelle: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
— Bernard Groethuysen French literary historian, translator and writer 1880 - 1946
Quelle: The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 177
— Étienne Gilson French historian and philosopher 1884 - 1978
Introduction
Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
— Étienne Gilson French historian and philosopher 1884 - 1978
Introduction
Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
— Malcolm Lowry, buch Under the Volcano
Quelle: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. I (p. 36)
— George Holyoake British secularist, co-operator, and newspaper editor 1817 - 1906
Memorial dedication (1902)
— Bernard Groethuysen French literary historian, translator and writer 1880 - 1946
Quelle: The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 46
— Marsden Hartley American artist 1877 - 1943
letter to Alfred Stieglitz, February 8, 1913; as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 44
1908 - 1920
— Clarence Darrow American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union 1857 - 1938
Voltaire (1916)
— Conrad Black Canadian-born newspaper publisher 1944
on one of his mentors
The Establishment Man by Peter Newman
