“Al-Kind¯ı’s work revived philosophy as living practice and introduced it in the new social environment of Abbasid Baghdad by making it relevant… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“, the core of [Al-Kindi's] philosophical enterprise was centered in the geometrical approach to the solution of all problems associated with metaphysics… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The term Greek philosophy, to begin with is a misnomer, for there is no such philosophy in existence. The ancient Egyptians had… — George G.M. James Copy Share Image
“The classical heritage as shaped by and filtered through Roman culture had two great flaws. First, it prevented the very rich oral… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“Is a Can Opener a Can Opener . . . ? As we explain in The Shaping of Things to Come,[157] one of the “trick questions”… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“It was fundamental to Plato, and to the mainstream of classical Greek philosophy after him, that men are created unequal; not merely… — M.I. Finley Copy Share Image
God cannot suffer - at least not as we do. It has some roots in Greek philosophy: if God is a perfect… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating… — Nevill Drury Copy Share Image
“Kabbalah (in Hebrew, literally “receiving”) refers to the mystical traditions that encompass the secrets of the Torah, the esoteric truths that reveal… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“I refer to the Gospel account in which Christ weeps at the grave of his friend Lazarus. We need to pause and… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“The European reception of Greek philosophy has been dominated by a model in which Plato and Aristotle are seen as the centers… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“The Qur’ān does not appear to endorse the kind of doctrine of a radical mind-body dualism found in Greek philosophy, Christianity, or… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Divine immutability is not the construct of an unloving God imported from Greek philosophy; rather, divine immutability is the grounds for the… — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it would sound too paradoxical to say that these two saints saved us from Spirituality; a dreadful doom. Perhaps it may… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The God of St. Thomas and Dante is a God Who loves, the god of Aristotle is a god who does not… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“The hadith, insofar as they addressed issues not dealt with in the Quran, would become an indispensable tool in the formation of… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
