30 Brilliant Quotes By Desiderius Erasmus
Quotes By Desiderius Erasmus Who Was A Celebrated Christian Author, Philosopher, And Scholar Of The Northern Renaissance.
Quotes By Desiderius Erasmus Who Was A Celebrated Christian Author, Philosopher, And Scholar Of The Northern Renaissance.
C.S Lewis knew the value and importance of reading a good book. Solely for the sake of the book. Reading good books because they were good and not because they would give you a leg up on the other guy. In the quotes below I hope that you too can fall in love with reading and begin to read good books simply because they are good and you like them.
There are plenty of books and papers written to expound on them being intellectual Christians. That is not my aim here, I only want to touch on it before I move onto my subject matter. Which I will be calling "The value of experience and the template of others live in the understanding of the way things work."
C.S Lewis was an Oxford and Cambridge scholar, a prolific writer, classicist, philosopher, and Christian. He wrote more than 20 books in his time the most popular of which is, The Chronicles Of Narnia and Mere Christianity. Apart from those two books, he also produced two excellent works on both pain in the general sense and grief in a personal sense. Most of the quotes you will find below are from those two works, A Grief Observed and The Problem Of Pain. Though most of the quotes come from those two books, there are a few that I have pulled from his other works — namely, The Screwtape Letters and The Chronicles of Narnia.
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is thought to be the father of existentialism. His writings span over various topics including psychology, Christianity, ethics, morality, and poetry. Among his many works there are two that stand out to me more than the others, The Sickness Unto Death and The Concept of Anxiety. Both of these works are more psychological in nature. The Sickness Unto Death was written in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. The book is about his concept of despair which he relates back to the Christian idea of original sin. The Concept of Anxiety was published in 1844 under the pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis. Throughout the book he deals with anxiety which he describes as an unfocused fear or a "dizziness of freedom."Kierkegaard himself suffered from anxiety and throughout his life experienced great tragedy and loss. By the time Kierkegaard was 35, he had lost both his parents and all his brothers and sisters except for one. This for clear reasons leads him to struggle with what he called melancholy and what we moderns would call depression. This melancholy coupled with his anxiety provided him with an insider's understanding of the topics he wrote about. Below, you will find ten quotes from his most notable works The Sickness Unto Death, The Concept of Anxiety, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, and The Journals of Kierkegaard.