What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium! For if we would compare the Infinite, it would surely require a greater Infinite to cause the causes of effects than to produce the effects themselves.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the nature of the Infinite and the idea of a supreme creator being responsible for all that exists.
August Weismann's quote delves into a philosophical exploration of the concept of the Infinite and posits that if one considers everything that exists as a result of an initial cause, such an initial cause must be itself an Infinite being. This perspective suggests a complex relationship between creation and the creator, indicating that understanding the entirety of existence requires an acknowledgment of something even greater than what is produced—the creator itself.
In practice
In a discussion about the origins of the universe during a philosophy class.
We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with one accord from all sides the evolution of the world of organisms, we cannot assume that the process stopped short of Man. But it follows also that the factors which brought about the development of Man from his Simian ancestry must be the same as those which have brought about the whole of evolution.
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.
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