Philosophy Quote by John Marenbon

“Charlemagne was intimately involved in the new interest in philosophy in his court. One of the earliest, in-part philosophical texts was issued as if…

— John Marenbon

“Paul was the only scholar among the apostles. He never displays his learning, considering it of no account as compared with the excellency of…

— Philip Schaff

“If Paul brought the first generation of Christians the useful skills of a trained theologian, Origen was the first great philosopher to rethink the…

— Paul Johnson

Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical denial that…

— Robert M. Price

“The great charm of St Francis, that which explains the wonderful attraction he has even for spirits apparently removed from him, is that no…

— Gabriel Faure

“Paris became the center for twelfth-century philosophy because of the decision to allow any qualified master to set up a school there, on payment…

— John Marenbon

“One of the early critics of Christianity was Celsus (fl. 180), the witty philosopher who observed that Christianity was a "degraded kind of Platonism,…

— D.M. Murdock

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for…

— Martha Finley

“Humanists were people who wanted to return to ideas found in old Greek and Latin writing of Greece and Rome, written many centuries earlier.…

— Michael Mullett

The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is the death…

— Donald M. MacKinnon

“After Justinian became Emperor: "He was a man of deep piety, which he signalized, two years after his accession, by closing the schools of…

— Betrand Russell

“I ought also here to speak of Jakob Bohme. For he too used the German language for philosophical treatises, and has gained high praise…

— Heinrich Heine