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“Remember that the least thought for any other than God is an adultery.” Peter Abelard, The love letters of Abelard and Heloise · precept
Nietzsche claims every moral system is a long constraint akin to language and artistic discipline, and that this “tyranny” historically produces European spiritual strength despite stifling some freedom.
me, is that I know how to obey--and with you it SHALL not be otherwise than with me!" In short, systems of morals are only a SIGN-LANGUAGE OF THE EMOTIONS. 188. In contrast to laisser-aller, every system of morals is a sort of tyranny against "nature" and also against "reason", that is, however, no objection, unless one should again decree by some system of morals, that all kinds of tyranny and unreasonableness are …
Abelard urges repentance and spiritual discipline, notes long silence after the veil, calls their affair a scandal in France, urges Heloise to flee passion, and compares his case to salvation through suffering.
Omnipotence and assist us. Let us say for our comfort that what we suffer is one of those terrible temptations which have sometimes disturbed the vocations of the most holy. God can grant His presence to men in order to soften their calamities whenever He shall think fit. It was His pleasure when you took the veil to draw you to Him by His grace. I saw your eyes, when you spoke your last farewell, fixed upon the Cro…
She concludes by urging weary sinners to remember God’s words and compassion, insisting God is never weary of forgiving and asking all created things to praise God.
those consolations and graces which Thou hast given to me, who am what I am, Thou, O my Lord, didst answer me: Serve thou Me, and meddle not with this. 14. This was the first word which I ever heard Thee speak to me, and it made me greatly afraid. But as I shall speak hereafter [5] of this way of hearing, and of other matters, I say nothing here; for to do so would be to digress from my subject, and I have already …
Philosophy gives examples of how providence treats both good and bad—restraining excess wickedness, testing virtue through affliction, and converting evil prosperity or suffering into eventual improvement.
So, shouldst thou see anything in this world happening differently from thy expectation, doubt not but events are rightly ordered; it is in thy judgment that there is perverse confusion. 'Grant, however, there be somewhere found one of so happy a character that God and man alike agree in their judgments about him; yet is he somewhat infirm in strength of mind. It may be, if he fall into adversity, he will cease to p…
He criticizes a dull disposition that overfocuses on bodily matters like eating and exercise, insisting that these are merely secondary duties and attention should chiefly go to the mind.
THE WORTH OF WOMEN. From the age of fourteen years women are flattered and worshiped by men. Seeing thus that there is nothing else for them but to serve the pleasure of men, they begin to beautify themselves, and to place all their hopes in this. It were well, then, that they should perceive themselves to be prized for nothing else than modesty and decorum. A DULL NATURE. It betokens a dull nature to be greatly o…