David Friedrich Strauss famous quotes

The world ultimately is what we say it is.
-- David Friedrich Strauss

#World

The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.
-- David Friedrich Strauss

#Determination #Space #Perception

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
-- David Friedrich Strauss

#Christmas #Reality #Miracle

...centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now.
-- David Friedrich Strauss

#Easter #Real #Heart

If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.
-- David Friedrich Strauss

#Reality #Men #Unity

For productive collaboration adopt five principles: involve the relevant stakeholders, build consensus phase by phase, design a process map, designate a process facilitator and harness the power of group memory.
-- David Friedrich Strauss

#Memories #Design #Principles

If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary character of these evangelical anecdotes, still leans to the historical interpretation, whether natural or supernatural; that mind must be alike ignorant of the true character both of legend and of history, of the natural and the supernatural.
-- David Friedrich Strauss

#Character #Historical #Mind

After the privatization of public education everyone will get to choose a school that reflects only your own social values. No need for the competition of ideas or critical thinking. So the curriculum will be up to the school to determine. I am certain that the growing percentage of us who have McJobs will welcome this opportunity to spend a large portion of our income on education and choose an ideology at the same time.
-- David Friedrich Strauss

#School #Thinking #Opportunity

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.