Johannes Scotus Eriugena quotes

“Every visible and invisible creature is an appearance of God.”
-- Johannes Scotus Eriugena

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“For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by true reason is seen to be weak, whereas true reason is kept firm and immutable by her own powers and does not require to be confirmed by the assent of any authority.”
-- Johannes Scotus Eriugena

Source : "De Divisione Naturae", Bk. 1, ch. 69; translation by I. P. Sheldon-Williams, sited from "A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy" edited by Peter Dronke, Cambridge: CUP, (p. 2), 1988.

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“We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.”
-- Johannes Scotus Eriugena

Source : "Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch - review" by Stuart Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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“The end of all motion is its beginning; for it terminates at no other end save its own beginning from which begins to be moved and to which it tends ever to return, in order to cease and rest in it.”
-- Johannes Scotus Eriugena

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“Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority.”
-- Johannes Scotus Eriugena

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“Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.”
-- Johannes Scotus Eriugena

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“Observe the forms and beauties of sensible things and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so, the truth will reveal to you in all such things only He who made them.”
-- Johannes Scotus Eriugena

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“If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

“All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.”

Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1924). “The Dance of ?iva: Essays on Indian Art and Culture”, p.109, Courier Corporation

“To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.”

“Once you start believing that something is possible, you start to let it in to your awareness and it starts to become true to you.”

“When they feel invisible, it's easy for them to leave.”

“You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.”

“Appearances often are deceiving.”

“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.”

“I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.”

“By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.”