12th century · Skopia

Showing 15 quotes from the 12th century

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres

1159

★ 6.9

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

1125

★ 3.9

Autobiography and memoir

For we do not easily expect evil of those whom we love most.

1132

★ 3.8

I have freed my soul.

Bernard of Clairvaux

1152

★ 3.8

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

1147

★ 3.7

God knows I never sought anything in you except yourself; I wanted simply you, nothing of yours.

1132

★ 2.1

Religious literature

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.

Guide for the Perplexed · 1190

★ 2.1

Religious literature

Astrology is a disease, not a science.

1195

★ 2.1

O what their joy and glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see!

1142

★ 2.0

Religious literature

The highest sacrifice is a broken and contrite heart; the highest wisdom is that which is found in the Torah; the noblest of all ornaments is modesty; and the most beautiful thing that man can do, is to forgive a wrong.

Eleazar of Worms

1200

★ 1.9

My heart was not in me but with you, and now, even more, if it is not with you it is nowhere.

1132

★ 1.3

Religious literature

The foundation of our faith is the belief that God created the Universe from nothing; that time did not exist previously, but was created.

Guide for the Perplexed · 1190

★ 1.3

It is the Russians' joy to drink; we cannot do without it.

Vladimir the Great

1113

★ 1.2

Religious literature

When I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing then thousand fools-I prefer to address myself to the man.

The Guide for the Perplexed · 1190

★ 1.2

Religious literature

The basic tenets of our Torah and its fundamental principles are thirteen in number: The first fundamental principle is the existence of the Creator. There is a being who exists in the most perfect mode of existence, and he is the cause of he existence of all other beings.

1168

★ 1.1