It is one of the signs of decadence in the present age that… - L. P. Jacks

" "
It is one of the signs of decadence in the present age that livelihoods should be procurable by the scientific analysis of religion. Had I the power, I would make it a penal offence to publish the results of such inquiries.

L. P. Jacks

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

About L. P. Jacks

Lawrence Pearsall Jacks (9 October 1860 – 17 February 1955), usually cited as L. P. Jacks, was an English educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister who rose to prominence in the period from World War I to World War II.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Birth Name: Lawrence Pearsall Jacks

All quotes from L. P. Jacks Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like L. P. Jacks:

Alfred North Whitehead Novalis Ludwig Wittgenstein Aldous Huxley Northrop Frye

Additional quotes by L. P. Jacks

Philosophy resembles poetry in being an art for enforcing meditation, for driving the mind inwards until it sinks into its Object.

Among the arts of expression one is suited to this purpose, another to that. It is hard to express movement in stone or rest in music. It is harder still to express permanence in speech.

The spiritual men of India, a great and watchful multitude whose spiritual status is unattainable, are many of them catholics in a deeper sense than we of the West have yet given to the word ....

It is one of the signs of decadence in the present age that livelihoods should be procurable by the scientific analysis of religion. Had I the power,… - L. P. Jacks

About L. P. Jacks

Also Known As

Advanced Search Filters

Additional quotes by L. P. Jacks

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI