philosophico-religious

Updated: May 20, 2025

With astonishing copiousness of learning and still more astonishing strength of faith he created out of the most dissimilar elements a philosophico-religious structure, the singular outline of which he probably developed still more in his oral discourses than in his theological and physical writings.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy

If the German naturalist is especially exposed to the danger of judging all reality from the section of it with which he is familiar, from the world of material substances and mechanical motions, the reason lies in the fact that he does not find it easy, like the Englishman for example, to let the scientific and the philosophico-religious views of the world go on side by side as two entirely heterogeneous modes of looking at things.

Richard Falckenberg - History of Modern Philosophy: From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

Sometimes he uses dialectical reasoning; sometimes he soars in mystical exaltation; sometimes he writes with a simplicity level to the common mind, and in connection with that which lies at hand; sometimes, with the most comprehensive brevity. Besides these his philosophico-religious works are of great value, De Pace Fidei, De Cribratione Alchorani.

Richard Falckenberg - History of Modern Philosophy: From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

"Some very serious young men," said Blondet, "who meet at a philosophico-religious symposium in the Rue des Quatre-Vents, and worry themselves about the meaning of human life " "Oh! oh!" "They are trying to find out whether it goes round in a circle, or makes some progress," continued Blondet.

Honoré de Balzac - A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

With astonishing copiousness of learning and still more astonishing strength of faith he created out of the most dissimilar elements a philosophico-religious structure, the singular outline of which he probably developed still more in his oral discourses than in his theological and physical writings.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

"Some very serious young men," said Blondet, "who meet at a philosophico-religious symposium in the Rue des Quatre-Vents, and worry themselves about the meaning of human life " "Oh! oh!" "They are trying to find out whether it goes round in a circle, or makes some progress," continued Blondet.

Honoré de Balzac - Lost Illusions