Quotable: Two from Early Centuries Men.

It's the obscure quotes that I have been looking for but it will give you the quote fix that everybody needs once in awhile--- actually to tide you completely over I will give you two. Um....yeah, Let's get into it.

• Quote by Bernard of Chartres 

"We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giant,

so that we can see more then they, and things

at a greater distance, not by virtue of any

sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical

distinction, but because we are carried

and raised up by their great size. "

A very popular and inspiring quote by a philosopher, and a man of the first century at that! I hope not all of his work is just about giants and dwarfs, not that anything is bad about that, it would be a little weird (sorry short people! I'm short so I know how it is).

Saint Augustine and apparently his dog.

•  Quote by St. Augustine

"I loved not yet, yet I loved to love....I sought what I might love, loving to love. "  

 Oh Google and it's weird spacing.
Today we wouldn't expect saints to talk especially about love. Christian saints are supposed to be virtuous not indulge in or talk about sins, like this quote suggests; it might suggest the sin lust. And St. Augustine was a church father, yet he was plagued by Christian 'sins'.
I should try looking up about Augustine if I have the time to. A man who makes confessions should be very interesting.

Please check out The Confessions of St. Augustine!
It has all the juicy gossip you can get from a first century saint....plus it's a classic. Click the link on the picture.








Sources:
The Yale Book of Quotations, edited by Fred R. Shapiro with a foreword by Joseph Epstein.