Peter Abelard famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#Doubt
By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth,
-- Peter Abelard

#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.
-- Peter Abelard

#Wisdom #Knowledge #Keys
Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.
-- Peter Abelard

#Writing #Special #Disease
By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry weÂ perceiveÂ the truth.
-- Peter Abelard

#Doubt #Perceive
Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others
-- Peter Abelard

#Use #Precision
By doubting we come to inquiry. By inquiry we come to Truth.
-- Peter Abelard

#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.
-- Peter Abelard

#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...
-- Peter Abelard

#Love #Philosophy #Hate
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

#Son #Example #Teach
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

#Son #Compassion #Two
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

#Children #Order #Grace
The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.
-- Peter Abelard

#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.
-- Peter Abelard

#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.
-- Peter Abelard

#Mean #Self #Games
Logic has made me hated in the world.
-- Peter Abelard

#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.
-- Peter Abelard

#Science #Doubt #May
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

#Pain #Sacrifice #Light
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

#Philosophy #War #Teaching
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

#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.
-- Peter Abelard

#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.
-- Peter Abelard

#Book #Passion #Kissing
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

#Sweet #Believe #Men
The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
-- Peter Abelard

#Passion #Men #Scripture
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

#Christmas #World #Might

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