Sentences with phrase «praises of folly»

In the midst of our endless political climaxes — focused on praises of folly (and the stress that follows)-- the amplification of artistic and cultural activities is even more rewarding.

Yet it was never demoralizing or cynical; the burden of Malcolm's wit, like that of the medieval and Renaissance Christian fools about whom he loved to discourse, as in Erasmus» Praise of Folly or Shakespeare's King Lear, was always, implicitly or explicitly, that we were all fools in need of laughter, forgiveness, and grace.

In Praise of Folly's said to be the product of a trip by horse.

In his Praise of Folly (1509) he showed up how remote ecclesiastical and scholarly debate was from pastoral concern.

So far, his sermons of denunciation were only common form, whereas in his In Praise of Folly (1511) Erasmus had given public vent to a violent sarcasm, which some people had found offensive, denouncing the warlike Pope Julius II and referring in his correspondence to «the monopoly of the Roman High Priest».

In In Praise of Folly he had written, amongst other such sharp words: I myself once heard a great fool (a great scholar I would have said) undertaking in a laborious discourse to explain the mystery of the Holy Trinity.

On the other hand, Luther was quite unable to understand the authenticity of the quiet though often acid scholar dedicated to a policy of neutrality, of attempting as far as possible to stand outside polarising polemic — Erasmus came eventually to wonder whether it might have been better not to have written In Praise of Folly, because it had led to just such polarisation.

As with Erasmus's In Praise of Folly or Pascal's Provinical Letters, the best satire is that which fits into a larger moral vision.

Indeed, the idea of amusement, espoused by Duchamp as an aesthetic aspiration, is expanded by Graham in British Weathervanes to include the idea of folly, as espoused by the sixteenth - century humanist scholar Erasmus, author of The Praise of Folly (1511).

Graham's Erasmus weathervane, made for the cupola of the Whitechapel Gallery in London, shows the author, modeled by the artist, reading a book while riding a horse backwards (elaborating on the anecdote that Erasmus wrote The Praise of Folly on horseback).

Not exact matches

Whether the innocent suffer because of natural disasters (like earthquakes) or because the consequences of human folly and injustice (like wars and revolutions) do not fall only on the guilty, the burden of suffering is so heavy that praising God seems not only out of the question but also a violation of our moral sense.

The story praises the curiosity of children and the folly of adults.

Accepting, Wallinger praised Haw's «tireless campaign against the folly and hubris of our government's foreign policy».