Scholastics Quotes

#1. Scholastics called the "irascible" (averting) and "concupiscible" (attracting) emotions.

Peter Kreeft

#2. Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of God. Like the medieval scholastics, their only job is to uncover the divine plan. They could never create or stop it. At most they might aspire to small alterations.

John Ralston Saul

#3. Gravity, interpreted as an innate attraction between every pair of particles of matter, was an occult quality in the same sense as the scholastics' "tendency to fall" had been

Thomas S. Kuhn

#4. But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.

J.I. Packer

#5. Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

Carter G. Woodson

#6. The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Arthur Wellesley

#7. Respect is love in action

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#8. And suddenly it was all too much for him. He felt sad and misplaced, with the abrupt, overwhelming, dizzying sadness that comes over people in countries not their own, which has none of the richness of feeling that usually comes with sadness but is rather a kind of exhaustion.

Caleb Crain

#9. We're going to die, we're going to die. By the year 2000, there won't be any Belarussians left." My daughter was six years old. I'm putting her to bed, and she whispers in my ear: "Daddy, I want to live, I'm still little." And I had thought she didn't understand anything. Can

Svetlana Alexievich

#10. I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#11. You can't pay for tragedy with more tragedy, or draw life from death." "I

Cassandra Clare

#12. People can think whatever they think, but that's my strength to go forward.

Rajashree Choudhury