Quotes About Scholasticism

#1. After the evil spirit of a narrow Scholastic orthodoxy has been driven out, in the end seven much more wicked spirits return in its place.

Pope Benedict XVI

#2. The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, the essence of which is treating what is vague as if it were precise and trying to fit it into an exact logical category.

Frank P. Ramsey

#3. An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.

Thomas A. Edison

#4. Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

Miguel De Unamuno

#5. Who am I to judge me?

Ljupka Cvetanova

#6. The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

Antiphanes

#7. I think that The Great Gatsby has had some influence on contemporary dressing. I'm seeing more boyish haircuts and drop-waist sheath dresses.

Ruth E. Carter

#8. I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my discipline, which strikes me as a kind of medieval scholasticism of a special kind.

James C. Scott

#9. If this is what heaven feels like, then I've been damned to hell.

Tiffany Aleman

#10. Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.

Vladimir Lenin

#11. Pope John Paul II was unquestionably the most influential voice for morality and peace in the world during the last 100 years.

Billy Graham

#12. There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to be as good as me, Sweet Thing.
Ranger

Janet Evanovich

#13. I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

T Bone Burnett

#14. Fear of scholasticism is the mark of a false prophet. - KARL BARTH

R. Scott Clark

#15. Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

James J. Kilpatrick

#16. Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

Terence McKenna

#17. Mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism ... they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Alan Watts

#18. I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself.

Catherine Hardwicke

#19. In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Vaclav Havel

#21. Write on a screen that has no Internet access.

Bruno Heller

#22. Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

Rodney Stark