Peter Abelard
Peter Abelard
Peter Abelardwas a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. His affair with and love for Héloïse d'Argenteuil has become legendary. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "the keenest thinker and boldest theologian of the 12th Century"...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
doubt enquiry perceive
By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.
arrive doubting truth
By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
doubt inquiry
By doubting we come to inquiry. By inquiry we come to Truth.
pain sacrifice light
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.
peace prayer blessed
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.
passion men scripture
The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
mean self games
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.
christmas world might
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.
world logic made
Logic has made me hated in the world.
science doubt may
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
issues action good-intentions
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.
firsts belief absurd
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.
keys firsts questioning
The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.
son example teach
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.