Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher (c. 1768-1834)

"This infinite chaos, where of course every point represents a world, is as such actually the most suitable and highest symbol of religion. In religion, as in this chaos, only the particular is true and necessary; nothing can or may be proved anything else."

• From Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (second speech), translated by Richard Crouter (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"With energy, diligence,
restraint, and control,
the wise person should make an island
which no flood can overflow."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 2), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"The way begets one; one begets two; two begets three;
three begets the myriad creatures."

• From Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (Book Two, XLII), translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 1963).

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Al-Ghazālī

Al-Ghazālī (c. 1058-1111)

"The keys of hearts are in God's hand; He opens hearts when He wills, as He wills, and how He wills."

• From The Niche of Lights by Al Ghazālī, translated by David Buchman. Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1998.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"Having drunk the sap of solitude
and the savor of peace,
one is free of distress,
free from wrongdoing,
enjoying the delightful
flavor of the teaching."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 15), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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Xenophon

Xenophon (c. 420-350 BCE)

"Everything everywhere is subject to the gods and no matter where or what one is, the gods are in control."

• Anabasis Kyrou (Upcountry March of Cyrus, Book II, section 5) by Xenophon and translated by Robin Waterfield (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

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Book of Psalms

The Book of Psalms (a multi-generational work likely finalized between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC)

"Whoever of you loves life
     and desires to see many good days,
keep your tongue from evil
     and your lips from speaking lies.
Turn from evil and do good;
     seek peace and pursue it."

--Psalms 34: 12-14 (New International Version, 1978, 2011)




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Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher (c. 1768-1834)

"All religious feelings are supernatural, for they are religious only insofar as they are produced directly by the universe; whether they are religious in oneself, each person must judge best."

• From Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (second speech), translated by Richard Crouter (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"A comfort is virtue into old age.
A comfort is the establishment of conviction.
A comfort is the attainment of insightful knowledge.
Not acting destructively is a comfort."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 23), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"Darkened is this world.
 Few have insight here.
 Like a bird set free from a net,
 few go to a higher world."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 13), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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Odin (from Hávamál)

Odin (Norse god)

"Where you recognize evil, call it evil,
and give no truce to your enemies."

• This quote comes from stanza 127 of Hávamál (Sayings of the High One), an old poem which was preserved in the 13th-century Poetic Edda which was produced anonymously in Iceland. The translation is by Carolyne Larrington (Oxford University Press, 2014).

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The Buddha

The Buddha (6th-5th century BCE)

"The night is long for the wide awake.
The mile is long for the weary.
The round of birth and death is long
for childish people, who do not know the good way."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 5), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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The Buddha

The Buddha (6th-5th century BCE)

"Regard the person who sees your faults
as a revealer of treasures.
Associate with that skilled person
as one who is wise, who speaks reprovingly
Keeping company with such a person,
things get better, not worse."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 6), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher (c. 1768-1834)

"To love the world spirit and joyfully observe its work is the goal of our religion, and in love there is no fear."

• From Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (second speech), translated by Richard Crouter (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu (6th-5th century BCE)

"The sage knows without having to stir,
Identifies without having to see,
Accomplishes without having to act."

• From Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (Book Two, XLVII), translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 1963).

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The Buddha

The Buddha (6th-5th century BCE)

"Those wise ones, restrained in the body,
restrained as well in speech,
those wise ones, restrained in the mind,
they indeed are perfectly restrained."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 17), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004. 

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The Malleus Maleficarum

The Malleus Maleficarum (published in 1487 by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger)

"I say, of what use is it to speak of remedies to those who desire no remedy?"

• From The Malleus Maleficarum (Part II, Question 2, Chapter 3) by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, translated by Montague Summers (Dover Publications, 1971). 

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Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"The way never acts yet nothing is left undone."

• From Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (Book Two, XLIV), translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 1963).

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Severus of Minorca

Severus of Minorca (flourished c. 418)

"As I see it, you thirst for our blood, while we thirst for your salvation."

• Quote from Severus of Minorca's Letter on the Conversion of the Jews, translated by Scott Bradbury (Clarendon Press, 1996), and reprinted in Christianity in Late Antiquity, edited by Bart D. Ehrman and Andrew S. Jacobs
  (Oxford University Press, 2004).

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Saint Teresa of Avila

Saint Teresa of Avila (c. 1515-1582)

"My head sounds just as if it were full of brimming rivers, and then as if all the water in those rivers came suddenly rushing downward; and a host of little birds seem to be whistling, not in the ears, but in the upper part of the head, where the higher part of the soul is said to be."

• From Interior Castle (Fourth Mansions, chapter I) by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers (Dover Publications, 2007).

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