A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won’t care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don’t believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
A. A. Gill
Attributes
God gave you life
God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him.
Rumi
God’s purpose for man
God’s purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart. God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him. The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God. Rumi
Purify yourself from the
Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.
Rumi
A lover asked his
A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I’ve disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I’ve forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I’ve become a scholar. I’ve lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself…I love you. I love you…I love myself.
Rumi
Names and attributes must
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards. Galileo Galilei
In the first book
In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that the book will contain as it were the general structure of the universe. In the remaining books I relate the motions of the remaining stars, and all the spheres, to the mobility of the Earth, so that it can be thence established how far the motions and appearances of the remaining stars and spheres can be saved, if they are referred to the motions of the Earth.
Nicolaus Copernicus
It is to the
It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.
Rene Descartes
Before examining this more
Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life.
Rene Descartes
By ‘God’, I understand,
By ‘God’, I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else […] that exists. All these attributes are such that, the more carefully I concentrate on them, the less possible it seems that they could have originated from me alone. So, from what has been said it must be concluded that God necessarily exists.
Rene Descartes