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# Edwin Arthur Burtt

Edwin Arthur Burtt (1892 – 6 September 1989) was an American philosopher, who wrote extensively on the philosophy of religion.

## Quotes

* With what philosophical point of view did I begin my career as teacher? Looking back to that period, I see that it was a rather inchoate form of idealism, reflecting the liberal Protestant orientation I had then adopted. This idealism was gradually revised to make room for major aspects of Deweyan instrumentalism. In my years at Columbia, Dewey had impressed me as a person, and during my decade in Chicago, in close contact with colleagues whom he had deeply influenced, I came to accept what appeared to be the core of his contribution to philosophy. But continued sensitivity to insights from various quarters prevented me from becoming a disciple of any one philosopher or philosophical school.
** Burtt (1972), cited in: D. Villemaire, (2002), E.A. Burtt, Historian and Philosopher: : A Study of the Author of The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science. p. 20

### The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science (1925)

    The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science; a Historical and Critical Essay (1925)
* The central place of epistemology in modern philosophy is no accident... Knowledge was not a problem for the ruling philosophy of the Middle Ages; that the whole world which man's mind seeks to understand is intelligible to it was explicitly taken for granted. That people subsequently came to consider knowledge a problem implies that they had been led to accept certain different beliefs about the nature of man and about the things which he tries to understand.
** p. 2
* A student of the history of physical science will assign to Newton a further importance which the average man can hardly appreciate. ...the separation … of positive scientific inquiries from questions of ultimate causation.
** p. 19
* Ptolemy... against the champions of this or that cosmology of the heavens... had dared to claim that it is legitimate to interpret the facts of astronomy by the simplest geometrical scheme which will 'save the phenomena,' no matter whose metaphysics might be upset. His conception of the physical structure of the earth, however, prevented him from carrying through in earnest this principle of relativity, as his objections to the hypothesis that the earth moves amply show.
** p. 35
* The only way to avoid becoming a metaphysician is to say nothing.
** p. 224
** Often misquoted or paraphrased as "The only way to avoid metaphysics is to say nothing." Cf. on the next page, "you cannot avoid metaphysics".
# Edward de Veaux Morrell

Edward de Veaux Morrell (7 August 1863 – 1 September 1917) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

## Quotes

* I would like to ask what were the causes which led up to the Declaration of Independence; what it was that our forefathers fought for during 1776? Let me suggest that the initial cause for which we fought was that there should be “no taxation without representation,” and there can be no representation without the right to exercise the franchise. Direct representation of those governed in the governing body is the keystone of our democratic institutions. If our Government is not a representative government it is nothing.
** Speech in the House of Representatives (4 April 1904)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Edward de Veaux Morrell on Wikipedia
# Edwin Atherstone

Edwin Atherstone (1788 - 1872) was an English Romantic poet, known chiefly for his epic poems The Fall of Nineveh and Israel in Egypt. They are based on ancient history and The Bible.

## Quotes

* It was a day of gloom, and strange suspense, And feverish, and inexplicable dread, In Herculaneum's walls. The heavy, thick, And torrid atmosphere; the solid, vast, And strong--edg'd clouds, that through the firmament In various and opposing courses moved:-- The wild scream of the solitary bird That, at long intervals, flew terror-driven On high:--the howling of the red-ey'd dog As he gaz'd trembling on the angry heavens:- The hollow moans that swept along the air, Though every wind was lock'd,-portended all That nature with some dire event was big, And labour'd in its birth.
** The Last Days of Herculaneum (1821)
* Tombed in the solid night of starless space; From nearest living orb so far removed, That light, of all material things most swift, Myriads on myriads of earth's years must speed, Ere the mere outskirts of that Stygian gloom, If ever, it might reach,-at rest eterne, Lies the cold wreck of an extinguished sun. Prime glory once of all heaven's radiant host; Body, for soul of purest light most fit- 'Tween its first darkening, and eclipse complete, Streamed years which might eternity appear; While into ether, like the particles, Invisible, which are the breath of flowers, The mighty bulk its softer elements Still ever was exhaling. As when flesh And sinew of earth's monster Mastodon, By the slow wasting of the elements, All are dissolved, and hard, enduring bones Alone remain,- even so, of this immense,- When, by the ocean waves of centuries, Millions succeeding millions, worn away,- The adamantine skeleton alone, In darkness, silence, utter solitude, A ruin for eternity, was left.
** Israel in Egypt, Book the First (1861)
* In flame and smoke the wondrous city sinks! Her walls are gone! her palaces are dust! The desert is around her, and within! Like shadows have the mighty passed away!
** The Fall of Nineveh, The Prelude (1868)
# Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet. He was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.

## Quotes

* No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel
** Closing couplet- Quatrain 111 Children of the Night 1897 edition kindle ebook ASIN B004UJKLY2
* Oh for a poet - for a beacon bright
** Opening line of Sonnet Children of the Night 1897 edition kindle ebook ASIN B004UJKLY2
* Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, "Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked. And he was rich—yes, richer than a king— And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.
** Children of the Night (1910).
* I shall have more to say when I am dead.
** The Three Taverns (1920), "John Brown".
* Your Dollar is your only Word, The wrath of it your only fear. You build it altars tall enough To make you see, but your are blind; You cannot leave it long enough To look before you or behind.
** Cassandra (1950).
* A thousand golden sheaves were lying there, Shining and still, but not for long to stay— As if a thousand girls with golden hair Might rise from where they slept and go away.
** The Sheaves (1950).
* Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?
** The Man against the Sky (1950).

### Captain Craig (1902)

    In Captain Craig and Other Poems (1902).
* He was himself and he had lost the speed He started with, and he was left behind.
* You have made The cement of your churches out of tears And ashes, and the fabric will not stand.
* The gods are growing old; The stars are singing Golden hair to gray Green leaf to yellow leaf,—or chlorophyl To xanthophyl, to be more scientific.
* We are young And we are friends of time.

## Quotes about Edwin Arlington Robinson

* Another poem that I loved first as music, later pondered for what it could tell me about women and men and marriage, was Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Eros Turannos":
** Adrienne Rich Arts of the Possible (2001)

## External links

* E. A. Robsinson.com
* Robinson Bokardo.com
* Edwin Arlington Robinson
# Dhul-Nun al-Misri

Dhu'l-Nun al-Misri (796 – 859) was an Egyptian Sufi saint. He was considered the Patron Saint of the Physicians in the early Islamic era of Egypt, and is credited with having specialized the concept of Gnosis in Islam

## Quotes

* Never think of anyone as inferior to you. Open the inner Eye and you will see the One Glory shining in all creatures.
** Quoted in Ellen Kei Hua, ed., Meditations of the Masters, cited in Andrea Wiebers and David Wiebers, Souls Like Ourselves (Rochester, MN: Sojourn Press, 2000), p. 42.

### The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

* The Sufi's love to God goes with God's love towards him. Sufis are folk who have preferred God to everything, so that God has preferred them to everything.
** p. 39
* God gives his servant no source of strength more powerful for him than when He leads him to humiliate himself.
** p. 40
* Knowledge of God comprises three kind: Theological, philosophical and mystical. Theological knowledge concerns with tawhid or unification. Philosophical knowledge deals with the concept of Ultimate Truth, reached through reason. Mystical knowledge is the knowledge of the Essence of God. It is attained by the saints after mushahada or the contemplation on God in their illuminated hearts.
** p. 40
* Knowledge of the Divine Attributes or Godhead is the most perfect knowledge since it is realized through the soul's communion with God.
** p. 40
* The gnostic is the knower without knowledge, without sight, without information without apprehension, without description, without manifestation and without veil. If they are in themselves at all, they exist but in God, Their actions are held by God and their words are the words of God uttered by their tongues and their sight is the sight of God penetrated into their eyes.
** p. 40

## External links

* Muhammad Riaz Qadiri: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, Gujranwala, Pakistan, 2004
# Dhulbahante garesa

A Dhulbahante garesa is an anti-colonial castle, citadel, palace or fortress built during the Scramble for Africa period (1884 - 1914), of which twenty-seven such structures were built during the reign of 16th Dhulbahante garaad Diiriye Guure for administrative provinces such as Shiikhyaale to counter European and Abyssinian colonialism.

## Sourced

* ... complete with ‘Machicouli’ galleries, which rendered every means of ingress subject to an enfilading fire, and these he also began to construct elsewhere. He had possession of large areas of the hinterland. If defence reigned supreme, then his enemies must now come to attack him in his fortresses..
** Roy Irons, Churchill and the Mad Mullah of Somaliland (2013)
* Archer, telling the assembled war gods about the Mullah’s fortress at Tale, suggested that there were: …two views as to the nature of the operations which should be undertaken. (1) The first involved close co-operation between the Camel Corps and Air – Craft
** Geoffrey Archer, Churchill and the Mad Mullah of Somaliland (2013)
* The majority of the stock was grazing round the Dervish forts at Halin and Gerrowei, about 150 miles from our advanced post at Eil Dab, and were protected by some hundreds of Illaloes (i.e. scouts) covering our line of advance down the Nogal Valley.
** Douglas Jardine, Mad Mullah of Somaliland (1923)
# Diadochos of Photiki

Saint Diadochos of Photiki (c. 400 - c. 486) was a fifth-century ascetic whose works are included in the Philokalia.

## Quotes
### On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

       in Philokalia, as translated and edited by G. E. H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard and Kallistos Ware (1979)
* Spiritual discourse always keeps the soul free from self-esteem, for it gives every part of the soul a sense of light, so that it no longer needs the praise of men.
** § 11
* Whoever loves himself cannot love God.
** § 12
* No one can love God consciously in his heart unless he has first feared Him with all his heart. Through the action of fear the soul is purified and, as it were, made malleable and so it becomes awakened to the action of love.
** § 16
* The perceptive faculty natural to our soul is single, but it is split into two distinct modes of operation as a result of Adam's disobedience.
** § 25
* If the soul, through attentiveness, reduces the blindness caused by the love of this world, it will consider its slightest faults to be very grave and will continually shed tears. ... But if the soul persists in its worldly disposition, even though it commits a murder or some other act deserving severe punishment, it takes little notice; and it is quite unable to discern its other faults, often considering them to be signs of progress, and in its wretchedness it is not ashamed to defend them heatedly.
** § 27
* One side of the soul is carried away by the passionate part in man, and we are then captivated by the good things of this life, but the other side of the soul frequently delights in the activity of the intellect and, as a result, when we practice self-restraint, the intellect longs to pursue heavenly beauty.
** § 28
* If, therefore, we learn persistently to be detached from the good things of this world, we shall be able to unite the earthly appetite of the soul to its spiritual and intellectual aspiration, through the communion of the Holy Spirit who brings this about within us. For unless His divinity actively illumines the inner shrine of our heart, we shall not be able to taste God's goodness with the perceptive faculty undivided, that is, with unified aspiration.
** § 28
* Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.
** § 70
* The eye of the soul cannot be led astray when its veil, by which I mean the body, is refined to near-transparency through self-control.
** § 71
* With tears we sow seeds of prayer in the earth of the heart, hoping to reap the harvest in joy.
** § 73
# Drakengard

The Drakengard (a.k.a. Drag-On Dragoon) series is a video game franchise created by Cavia, the company behind the spin-off title Nier.

## Drakengard

    Furiae: It begins.
    Caim: [brimming with hatred] A dragon!
    Red Dragon: [when Caim raises his sword to finish off the already wounded dragon] Kill me if you desire. But you can never dirty my soul, wretched human.
    Caim: Tell me—do you still want to live, dragon?
    Red Dragon: [caught off-guard] What?
    Caim: A pact! There's no other way!
    Red Dragon: Hmph! What makes you worthy of a pact with me?
    Caim: Worthy or not, I wish to live. Despise me if you will, but I shall not die! Your answer! A pact, or…death?!

## Drakengard 3

    One: We've both been rejected by the world. We both feel the same threat. And yet...here we are, fated to kill each other in the end.
# Dražen Bušić

Dražen Bušić (15 September 1967), Croatian journalist, filmmaker, publisher and Catholic activist.

## Quotes

* "Abortion is a landmine. Alongside the main victim, baby, many others get hurt: mother, father, society, people."
** quoted in article Bušić, Dražen. Abortus je nagazna mina: Pored glavne žrtve, još mnogi stradaju! Snaga je život, 14 February 2018
# Drama Club

Drama Club is an American comedy mockumentary teen sitcom created by Monica Sherer and Madeline Whitby. The Tookus Middle School Drama Club has Mack as the new student director, who is excited to take on the school's original new musical, "Minnesota", but after their choreographer suffers an injury, Mack and the teens realized that they need help from a football player.

## External links

* Drama Club quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Dravidian peoples

The Dravidian peoples, or Dravidians, are an ethnolinguistic and cultural group living in South Asia who predominantly speak any of the Dravidian languages. There are around 250 million native speakers of Dravidian languages. Dravidian speakers form the majority of the population of South India and are natively found in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. Dravidian peoples are also present in Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, Myanmar, East Africa, the Caribbean, and the United Arab Emirates through recent migration.

## Quotes

* But the catalyst who is credited with the construction of the 'Dravidian race' was a missionary-scholar from the Anglican Church. His name was Bishop Robert Caldwell (1814–91), an evangelist for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, who combined the linguistic theory of Ellis with a strong racial narrative. He proposed the existence of the Dravidian race in his Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Race, which enjoys extreme popularity with Dravidianists to this day. Bishop Caldwell proposed that the Dravidians were in India before the Aryans, but got cheated by the Brahmins, who were the cunning agents of the Aryan. He argued that the simple-minded Dravidians were kept in shackles by Aryans through the exploitation of religion. Thus, the Dravidians needed to be liberated by Europeans like him. He proposed the complete removal of Sanskrit words from Tamil. Once the Dravidian mind would be free of the superstitions imposed by Aryans, Christian evangelization would reap the souls of Dravidians... Because the assumption of Mosaic ethnology was well established, it was important to secure both families of languages within that framework. Ellis claimed that Tamil is connected with Hebrew and also with ancient Arabic. Their logic was that since William Jones considered Sanskrit to be the language of Ham, and other scholars claimed that Sanskrit descended from Noah's oldest son, Japheth, by the process of elimination the remaining son of Noah, Shem, must be the ancestor of the Dravidian people. This made Dravidians a branch of the Scythians or in the same family as Jews.
** Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (Princeton, N.J.). (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
* An unhealthy movement has arisen in Tamil lands . . . which tends to make for a touchy and suspicious relationship between the two parts of our subcontinent. . . . the fact that the extra-origins of Aryanism has been a pernicious force amongst us and that its demolition would lead to greater harmony and cooperative creativity in India must not prejudice us as historians. We have to be calm and clear in our approach to the problem even while realizing that we cannot afford to be lax about a matter that keenly affects our collective future.
** KD Sethna 1992, I) 35 quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 13
# Drapetomania

Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of black slaves fleeing captivity.

## Quotes

* In the nineteenth century, ... official Western medicine recognized drapetomania, the tendency of slaves to run away from their owners, as a disease. ... With hindsight, drapetomania is easily dismissed as a harmful fabrication of fictitious disease, in a culture violating human rights. Less easy is it to recognize harmful fabrications of our own era for what they are.
    Are you sure that medicine and psychiatry are on the right track, morally and scientifically, in providing millions of person with drugs after having diagnosed them as depressed?
   * Wim J. van der Steen, Vincent K. Y. Ho, Ferry J. Karmelk, Beyond Boundaries of Biomedicine: Pragmatic Perspectives on Health and Disease (2003), p. 29
* What had been drapetomania became depression. ... Modern man runs away from a life that seems to him a kind of slavery.
** Thomas Szasz, "The Sane Slave: Social Control and Legal Psychiatry," American Criminal Law Review, vol. 10 (1971), p. 346
# Chaka

Chaka is the third and final novel by Lesotho writer Thomas Mofolo. Written in Sesotho, it is a mythic fictional retelling of the story of the rise and fall of the Zulu Kingdom|Zulu emperor-king Shaka. Following its first publication in 1925, it was published in English translation in 1931.

## Quotes

* Ambition is made of sterner stuff.‘
* (Pg. 153)
* Indeed, Chaka proves this when he made a shattering decision to sacrifice Noliwa his betrothed and sister to Dingiswayo, on the altar of ambition and absolute power. Through her death, Chaka becomes an absolute monarch, the greatest, most revered and feared King in all Zululand and beyond. His pathological cruelty also knew no bounds.
* You are killing me in the hope that you will be kings when I am dead, where as you are wrong, that is not the way it would be because umlungu, the white man is coming, and it is he who will rule you and you will be his servants.”
* ( Pg.167)
* I recommend this great novel for all lovers of historical fiction.
* [H]ere on earth people live by might only, and not by right; he decided that here on earth the only person who is wise and strong and beautiful and righteous, is he who knows how to fight with his stick, who, when people argue with him, settles the matter with his stick [...].
* "I have vaccinated you [...] [with] the medicine of blood; if you do not spill much blood, it will turn against you and kill you instead. Your sole purpose should be to kill without mercy, and thus clear the path that leads to the glory of your kingship."
* "Even on the battlefield his men, when wounded and about to die, would request the king, as their last wish, to disrobe so that they might admire his body for the last time, and thus die in peace [...]."
* "Now he is very famous and he is a great king. Is it possible he will be satisfied? Never! Now his greed has been aroused, and he is in search of something which even he himself does not know."

## External links

* readinpleasure