Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 1079 Death: April 21, 1142
The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning..
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, buf….
Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect..
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.….
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,….
By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth..
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth..
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….
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….
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..
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 himse….
God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action..
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 ….
By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth..
Logic has made me hated in the world..
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….
Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others.
Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease..
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….
The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts..
In doubting we come to inquiry; by inquiry we perceive the truth..