Peter Prange quotes

“Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.”
-- Peter Prange

Source : Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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“Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching penetrates into our hearts and souls, to continue its work inside, and we inhale the spirit of these books as healing or poisonous vapors. They can bring the greatest benefits and the greatest ruin, for from their ideas that they spread come the deeds of the future.”
-- Peter Prange

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“In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force, perhaps even stronger. Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.”
-- Peter Prange

Source : Peter Prange (2012). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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“The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment.”
-- Peter Prange

Source : Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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“Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.”
-- Peter Prange

Source : Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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“Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.”
-- Peter Prange

Source : Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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“Instead of discussing with myself every morning whether I feel inspired or not, I step into my office every day at nine sharp, open the window and politely ask the muse to enter and kiss me. Sometimes she comes in, more often she does not. But she can never claim that she hasn't found me waiting in the right place.”
-- Peter Prange

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“One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.”
-- Peter Prange

Source : Peter Prange (2012). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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“The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

“To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian theology, by A. Clarke, selected from his writings, with a life of the author by S. Dunn”, p.70

“To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”

“Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.”

“I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.”

“Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.”

“Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 21, 2013

“Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.”

“The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.”

“I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.”

Source : "Report: Peru rejects rebels' demands to free prisoners". December 20, 1996.