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Peter Abelard quotes

Ocupation: Philosopher

Life: 1079 - April 21, 1142

Birthday: 1079

Death: April 21

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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Topics: Doubt, Investigating

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By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth,

Topics: Doubt, Questioning, Perceive

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.

Topics: Wisdom, Knowledge, Keys

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

Topics: Writing, Special, Disease, Precaution

By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.

Topics: Doubt, Perceive

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others

Topics: Use, Precision

By doubting we come to inquiry. By inquiry we come to Truth.

Topics: Doubt, Inquiry

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.

Topics: Issues, Action, Good Intentions

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...

Topics: Love, Philosophy, Hate, Faithless

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.

Topics: Son, Example, Teach, Binding

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?

Topics: Son, Compassion, Two, Only Son

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.

Topics: Children, Order, Grace, Deeper Love

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

Topics: Keys, Firsts, Questioning

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.

Topics: Gratitude, Grateful, Sorrow

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.

Topics: Mean, Self, Games, Gymnasiums

Logic has made me hated in the world.

source: - Peter Abelard (1977). “The Story of His Misfortunes and The Personal Letters”

Topics: World, Logic, Made

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Topics: Science, Doubt, May, Greatest Wisdom, Faith And Doubt

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.

Topics: Pain, Sacrifice, Light, Evermore, Sins Not

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.

Topics: Philosophy, War, Teaching, Dialectics

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.

Topics: Firsts, Belief, Absurd

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.

source: - "Peter Abelard's Ethics". Book by Peter Abelard, 1971.

Topics: Men, Diversity, Different

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.

source: - Peter Abelard (2012). “Historia Calamitatum - The Story Of My Misfortunes (Annotated Edition)”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

Topics: Book, Passion, Kissing, Pretext

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.

source: - Peter Abelard, Héloïse (2017). “Letters of Abelard and Heloise”, p.40, Litres

Topics: Sweet, Believe, Men

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

source: - Orlando Williams Wight, Peter Abelard, Héloïse, Alphonse de Lamartine (1861). “Lives and Letters of Abelard and Heloise”, p.209

Topics: Passion, Men, Scripture, Miserable Life

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.

source: - "Doctrine And Development". Book by Hastings Rashdall, 1898.

Topics: Christmas, World, Might, Meaning Of Christmas

God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action.

Topics: Spirit, Action

Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.

Topics: Language, Intellect

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