Quotes by Peter Abelard - Page 1

Logic has made me hated in the world.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Logic
Made
World
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God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Action
Spirit
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The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Firsts
Keys
Questioning
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Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Precise
Precision
Use
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In doubting we come to inquiry; by inquiry we perceive the truth.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Doubt
Inquiry
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Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Intellect
Language
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By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Doubt
Enquiry
Perceive
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By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Truth
Questioning
Arrive
Doubting
Led
Question
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By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Doubt
Perceive
Questioning
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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Inspirational
Truth
Doubt
Come
Doubting
Investigate
Recognize
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The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Men
Abandon
Miserable
Passion
Scripture
Beasts
Passions
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Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Disease
Special
Writing
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The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Success
Faith
Motivation
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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 / Philosopher
Christmas
Smile
Causes
Might
Purpose
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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.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Journey
Knowledge
Wisdom
Truth
Constant
Doubt
Keys
Questioning
Arrive
Doubting
Frequent
Led
Question
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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 / Philosopher
Death
Binding
Example
Son
Teach
Love Nature God
Himself
Word
Point
Thus
Took
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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 / Philosopher
Action
Good Intentions
Issues
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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 / Philosopher
War
Philosophy
Teaching
Trophies
Weapons
Armed
Chose
Conflicts
Dialectic
Preferred
Teachings
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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 / Philosopher
Science
Belief
Firsts
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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 / Philosopher
Grateful
Gratitude
Sorrow
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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.
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Book
Kissing
Passion
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In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not bear any good in itself but proceeds from a good intention. Whence when the same thing is done by the same man at different times, by the diversity of his intention, however, his action is now said to be good, now bad.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Men
Diversity
Doe
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Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those who see chess merely as a means of self-proof make the game experience uncomfortable and drive many of the better, more sensitive brains to analysis, correspondence, problems, studies and the like.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Games
Mean
Self
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Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
All Things
Children
Christ
Deeper
Found
Grace
Greater
Liberty
Order
Redemption
Sin
Slavery
Suffering
Within
Shown
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Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Bitter
Compassion
Horrible
Hung
Infamous
Moved
Salvation
Son
Spit
Tears
Thieves
Thorns
Two
Behold
Cross
Dragged
Finally
Manner
Mocked
Seized
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O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see! crowns for the valiant, for weary ones rest: God shall be all, and in all ever blest. Truly Jerusalem name we that shore, vision of peace that brings hope evermore; wish and fulfillment shall severed be ne'er, nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Peace
Blessed
Prayer
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And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying tribute at some time or other to Love, and it is vain to strive to avoid it. I was a philosopher, yet this tyrant of the mind triumphed over all my wisdom; his darts were of greater force than all my reasonings, and with a sweet constraint he led me wherever he pleased.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Men
Believe
Sweet
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Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine, thou bearest, Lord; make us thy sorrow feel, till through our pity and our shame love answers love's appeal. This is earth's darkest hour, but thou dost light and life restore; then let all praise be given thee who livest evermore. Grant us with thee to suffer pain that, as we share this hour, thy cross may bring us to thy joy and resurrection power.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Life
Pain
Sacrifice
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I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me from love... duty, reason and decency, which upon other occasions have some power over me, are here useless. The Gospel is a language I do not understand when it opposes my passion... but when love has once been sincere how difficult it is to determine to love no more! 'Tis a thousand times more easy to renounce the world than love. I hate this deceitful, faithless world; I think no more of it.
Peter Abelard / Philosopher
Love
Hate
Philosophy
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