“It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.” NeedsReasonFactsFormFaithEasyKnowledgeObjectsInvolvedPureEternalHistoricalIndifferentAbsurdityHistorical Knowledge Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the objects in his novels. I have a view of the entrance to the Bosporus, the old city, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque.” FirstsLooksSometimesViewsCitiesFictionNovelObjectsJokesWindowBlueHistoricalHistorical FictionEntrancesMosquesSophia Author:Orhan Pamuk
“Modern man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has ever brought into being, whether a created object or historical event.” MenLostChristianityTeachModernEventsObjectsHistoricalModern ManHistorical Events Author:R. C. Sproul
“Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.” MenWorldTermSimpleCommonObjectsHistoricalTreatedRebellionAffirmationRefusalElude Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.” IfsMenDoeProcessObjectsCircumstancesCamerasHistoricalAriseIdeologyPhenomenonUpside DownInversionsCamera Obscura Book:The German Ideology Source: The German Ideology
“The obvious example would be Jesus. Jesus is an object of fascination for me. He's an interesting historical character because we don't know much about him. He seems to be a guy who was in touch with something deeper than most people around him were and someone who was very concerned with trying to communicate that.” PeopleKnowsTryingCharacterSeemsWould BeGuyJesusInterestingExampleObjectsConcernedHistoricalObviousCommunicateDeeperFascination Author:Brad Warner