Top 41 Dionysius Quotes
#1. The fifth-century Greek writer we know as Dionysius the Areopagite once said that as he grew older and wiser his books got shorter and shorter.
Anonymous
#2. Thomas seems to be implying a threefold, originally Neoplatonic, model that he would have known through the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius, comprising (1) God in God-self; (2) the exitus, or procession of creatures from God; and finally (3) the reditus, or the return of creatures to God.
Bernard McGinn
#3. Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, God forbid that it should ever befall me!
Plutarch
#4. It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.
Bertrand Russell
#6. St. Hierotheos, the great teacher quoted by Dionysius in his book on Divine Names: "As form giving form to all that is formless, in so far as It is the principle of form, the Divine Nature of the Christ is none the less formless in all that has form, since It transcends all form....
Titus Burckhardt
#7. Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both away with him.
Plutarch
#8. Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.
Flavius Josephus
#9. Plato judged right, that except kings themselves became philosophers, they who from their childhood are corrupted with false notions would never fall in entirely with the counsels of philosophers, and this he himself found to be true in the person of Dionysius.
Thomas More
#10. Those who do not know must be taught, not punished. We do not hit the blind. We lead them by the hand.
Pope Dionysius
#11. There's no end to the stoppage of this drama
Alan Parry
#12. One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.
Ravi Shankar
#13. The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas, on the other hand, bad institutions render men cowardly, rapacious, and slaves of every foul desire.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#14. It's judgement day. I'm nervous. My films are finally being released!
Sienna Miller
#15. A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#16. Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
Dionysius Lardner
#17. I was petrified of what he made me feel. After having no one for so long, the possibility of filling the emptiness was almost unimaginable.
Helena Hunting
#18. Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#20. They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.
Jane Yolen
#21. Believe me, although I really like the show, the reality of Philly Homicide is nothing like CBS's 'Cold Case.'
Richard Montanari
#22. I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
Baba Kalyani
#23. Unknowing, or agnosia, is not ignorance or absence of knowledge as ordinarily understood, but rather the realization that no finite knowledge can fully know the Infinite One, and that therefore He is only truly to be approached by agnosia, or by that which is beyond and above knowledge.
Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite
#26. Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.
Dionysius Lardner
#28. Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss the signs when it's clearly not going to.
Mike Krieger
#29. Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#30. If we have not enough in our religion to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.
David Livingstone
#31. The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we are capable of forming; so that now as we plunge into that darkness which is beyond intellect, we shall find ourselves not simply running short of words but actually speechless and unknowing.
Pope Dionysius
#32. I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.
Monica Potter
#33. We are guilty of idolatry every time we think about God in any way other than the way Scripture portrays Him.
Barbara Hughes
#34. I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.
Patrick Stewart
#35. Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
F. Sionil Jose
#36. Christ, you're the most annoying woman I've ever met.
Kristen Ashley
#37. The title 'Righteousness' is given to God because He assigns what is appropriate to all things; he distributes their due proportion, beauty, rank, arrangement, their proper and fitting place and order ...
Pope Dionysius
#38. It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#40. Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago [Without learning, life is but the image of death]
Dionysius Cato
