Peter Abelard
Peter Abelard
Peter Abelardwas a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. His affair with and love for Héloïse d'Argenteuil has become legendary. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "the keenest thinker and boldest theologian of the 12th Century"...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
doubt investigating
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
son compassion two
Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?
philosophy war teaching
I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.
world logic made
Logic has made me hated in the world.
keys firsts questioning
The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.
language intellect
Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.
son example teach
The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.
christmas world might
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
doubt enquiry perceive
By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.
pain sacrifice light
Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine, thou bearest, Lord; make us thy sorrow feel, till through our pity and our shame love answers love's appeal. This is earth's darkest hour, but thou dost light and life restore; then let all praise be given thee who livest evermore. Grant us with thee to suffer pain that, as we share this hour, thy cross may bring us to thy joy and resurrection power.
doubt inquiry
By doubting we come to inquiry. By inquiry we come to Truth.