Quotes about chivalric (4 Quotes)



    ... Ibn Arabi distinguishes between Allah as God in general and Rabb as the particular Lord, personalized in an individualized and undivided relation with his vassal of love. This individualized relationship on both sides is the foundation of the mystic and chivalric ethic of the fedel d'amore in the service of the personal Lord whose divinity depends on the adoration of his faithful vassal.... It is the passion that the fedele d'amore feels for his Lord which reveals the Lord to Himself. And this always individually, in an 'alone to alone,' which is something very different from universal logic or from a collective participation, because only the knowledge which the fedele has of his Lord is the knowledge which this personal Lord has of him.

    A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and thus is constantly in the position of inviting challenge.... He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, and at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric devicea gauntlet of defiance to all rivalsand not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.

    QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.



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