Abelard Quotes

#1. Religious men often think about death, and Abelard had given some thought to his last words. "I told you so" had not been on the list. The

Max Gladstone

#2. Instead of the smoldering, soul-baring, Abelard-to-Heloise-sans-castration solicitations you rightfully deserve, you're getting stupefying lines like: I'm listening to NPR. Do you want to come over and make out?

Maria Dahvana Headley

#3. Heloise learned to love Abelard solely for who he was. That forbidden love brought her nothing but pain, but she would rather have shame and pain with Abelard than peace and happiness without him.

Gary Thomas

#4. But this isn't human! When has this country ever been human, Abelard? You're the historian. You of all people should know that.

Junot Diaz

#5. Do you remember, Abelard ... Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God."
"I remember."
"I was wrong, darling. Being God is better.

Bruce Sterling

#6. We're clocks, Abelard. Nothing more.

Junot Diaz

#7. The guards then proceeded to inform the other prisoners that Abelard was a homosexual and a Communist - That is untrue! Abelard protested - but who is going to listen to a gay comunista?

Junot Diaz

#8. Song: Heloise and Abelard by Elizabeth Devlin. Beyond the a propros subject matter, this lady can really play the Autoharp. This song sounds like something you'd find on a gramophone record.

Lauren Groff

#9. Abelard did not look up from the god at his feet.

Max Gladstone

#10. It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.

Heloise

#11. We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.

Peter Abelard

#12. Assiduous and frequent questioning is indeed the first key to wisdom ... for by doubting we come to inquiry; through inquiring we perceive the truth ...

Pierre Abelard

#13. The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.

Peter Abelard

#14. In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.

Peter Abelard

#15. Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

Pierre Abelard

#16. The key to wisdom is this
constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Pierre Abelard

#17. By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.

Peter Abelard

#18. It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Peter Abelard

#19. Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.

Peter Abelard

#20. Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

Peter Abelard

#21. Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others

Peter Abelard

#22. The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

Peter Abelard

#23. By doubting we come to enquiry, and through enquiry we perceive truth.

Pierre Abelard

#24. The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

Peter Abelard

#25. Logic has made me hated in the world.

Peter Abelard

#26. Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.

Peter Abelard

#27. By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth,

Peter Abelard

#28. The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

#29. By doubting we come to the question, and by questioning we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

#30. I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

Peter Abelard

#31. By doubting we come to inquiry. By inquiry we come to Truth.

Peter Abelard

#32. As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#33. The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that
He might illuminate the world by His wisdom
and excite it to the love of Himself.

Peter Abelard