| 单词 | quietism |
| 例句 | The people responded by withdrawal into political quietism and/or private vices. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Yet what he evokes even more keeningly is a rage he finds almost welcome in a land known for its quietism and restraint. Waves of Destruction, Physical and Spiritual, Buffet Japan 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Ames represented a certain "quietism" that was little represented – indeed, it was paradoxical to have him as the narrator of a bestselling novel, as he would flinch from advertising his faith. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 2012-05-18T21:55:12Z That is why it is always some kind of political act, and why the furious expression of RS's political frustrations does not add up to a message of despair or quietism. RS Thomas: Serial Obsessive by M Wynn Thomas – review 2013-04-06T08:30:19Z Leeds Anglicanism was of High Church persuasion with many of its churches including All Souls' adopting Anglo-Catholic forms of worship quite different from the quietism of the Society of Friends. The forgotten sister of the woman who brought Kropotkin the anarchist to Leeds' poshest suburb 2013-01-15T11:16:40Z Voltaire's advice about cultivating one's garden was always moral as well as practical; nor was it a counsel of quietism. Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z If there's a problem with Foley's book, it's that it might be seen as an apologia for political quietism. Embracing the Ordinary by Michael Foley - review 2012-07-18T07:00:02Z It wasn’t just a matter of quietism and contemplation. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, the radical brothers who electrified Italian cinema 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z However, there are those who have accused it of the sin of “quietism,” of a resigned acceptance, even, according to Anthony Burgess, an “evasion” of the worst things in the world. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z To their children, this position seems like unforgivable quietism and complacency. Hong Kong’s Protest Movement and the Fight for the City’s Soul 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Because feckless but sweet peace-and-love quietism seldom makes going on a killing spree look like the obvious next step, equating the Manson “family” with hippies in general is obviously a fallacy. Woodstock glorified them. Tarantino barbecued them. In 2019, whither the hippie? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Diana was more aggressive, the clamorous defender of quietism. The Feuds of Diana Trilling 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The stance, she wrote, “looks very much like quietism,” a word she often uses when she disapproves of projects and ideas. The Philosopher of Feelings 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z She argues, for instance, that “I Want to Die in My Bed” has too often been read as a piece of liberal quietism—the private citizen who simply prefers to retire from extended military engagements. The Secular Psalmist 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z For when the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity, he traded in its early radicalism for a tame, establishment other-worldly quietism, something that was easily manipulated as an adjunct to the state and its power. Giles Fraser: my hopes for the Occupy St Paul's drama that puts me on the stage 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z The next US president will have to work out if there is a middle way between Bush's adventurism and Obama quietism. What will the big stories be in 2015? 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Advocates of extreme judicial quietism to punish the supine people leave the people’s representatives no recourse short of the extreme and disproportionate “self help” of impeachment. George F. Will: Stopping a lawless president It is sound and fury in the cause of preserving the culture of quietism, passivity. Our Orwellian reality: Drone wars, surveillance, a lapdog media — and you 2014-01-02T12:44:00Z The Stoics secured from quietism by their habits of public life, 199-201. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z In the heights of his illuminated quietism all the personality of the devotee was lost in the abyss of Divinity. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z The powers of mental concentration, and of metaphysical abstraction, are therefore the highest intellectual gifts; and quietism, or the absorption of our nature in God, is the last stage of virtue. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Under the weight of absurdity, quietism and individualism, the state seemed to be sinking, and all that freedom of mind which was the distinctive boast of Hellenism was rapidly being lost. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z This is the doctrine for which quietism was condemned. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Thus in his art he aimed at repose, the quietism of the Buddhists. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z His goal is happiness, not perhaps his own, but often the nation's, or humanity's at large: he avoids quietism, and uses history as a weapon against it. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Thus they led to results different from the introspection, quietism, and asceticism of the Indians, and the relapse into sensuality which was the inseparable concomitant of the latter. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z Self-abandonment, rigorous self-mortification, fervid piety, and quietism carried to the verge of apathy form the main features of their creed. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Even for the souls of the ‘deified,’ quietism is never right. Ruysbroeck 2011-10-29T02:00:16.413Z Yield yourselves to Him, not with a passive acquiescence, a sentimental quietism, but with the earnest, energetic direction of all your faculties to this one end. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z Cobbett, like many others, took the received Political Economy for a doctrine of political quietism. Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 2011-06-09T02:00:21.460Z The best quietism can, at most, be only a halt in the course, a truce in the strife, or rather another manner of combating. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Abbásid age, and particularly the dry formalism of Moslem theology could not fail to provoke counter-movements towards quietism, spiritual authority, and emotional faith. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z These result in inaction, quietism, reverie, self-abnegation, abolition of the personality, annihilation of the will, amounting sometimes even to poetic or religious ecstasy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Among the evolutionists differences have emerged owing to a confusion of the terms "quietism" and "evolution." Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century 2011-02-09T03:00:48.103Z But the lesson inculcated by Virgil is directly opposite to that state of quietism and pure contemplation in which Lucretius finds the ideal of human life. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil You may in abject quietism submit to it, but you cannot revere or adore it. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius "To the most extreme consequences of your view of the world, which extend to the familiar mystical quietism," replied Edwin with a calm smile. The Children of the World To have no opinions was the sceptical maxim, because in practice it meant apathy, total quietism. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Into his connection with Madame Guyon, the celebrated apostle of quietism, and his consequent quarrel with Bossuet, there is no need to enter further. A Short History of French Literature Religion, in its true meaning, an aspiration towards the divine, still exists among the Brahmins, but in a state of such quietism that it is sterile; it is lost to the whites. A Novelist on Novels The latter, known as quietism, was one of love’s aberrations. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern An exquisite, kind refinement, with a shade of quietism, gathered perhaps from the nuns, was what chiefly struck us. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Under the equinoctial line he has no disposition for exertion, his physiological relations with the climate making quietism most agreeable to him. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The woman’s quietism and piety passed on to his different nature undiminished; but whereas in her it was a native sentiment, in him it was only an implanted dogma. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston But when this had assumed the form of national centralization, the Greek Church dispensed with this, and, as far as regards its form, it returned again to the quietism of the Orient. Pedagogics as a System For the time being, however, throughout Europe generally and in certain sections of America, quietism found adherents. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern These rough borderers, who recall William of Deloraine and Dandie Dinmont, are somehow out of their element when preaching the doctrines of quietism and submission to circumstances. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) In a general way, it may be asserted that the same doctrines which in India led to the inculcation of indifference and quietism, led to Stoic activity in Greece and Italy. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition And he was the philosopher to whom this would seem the most obvious course, because his ethical ideal—quietism—agreed with the oldest popular ideal of divine existence. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity The Persian fights on horseback, and thus appears in distinction from the Indian Priestly Education.110 hermit seclusion and the quietism of the Lamas as restless and in constant motion. Pedagogics as a System Morbid as everything that came from Spain, quietism held that temptations are the means that God employs to purge the soul of passion. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Another ideal of life which has too exclusive emphasis in this land is that which is denominated quietism—an ideal which extols the passive virtues as distinguished from the manly, aggressive ones. India, Its Life and Thought And of all great religions it is the least political, for the practice of asceticism and quietism, of monastic seclusion from the working world, is necessarily adverse to any active connection with mundane affairs. Studies in Literature and History There is no life, only a sterile quietism. An Interpretation of Friends Worship The abstract quietism of the Indian penitents, of the Buddhists, of the fanatical ascetics, of the Protestant recluses, &c., is an error of this kind. Pedagogics as a System In quietism that indifference was solicited before subtraction came. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern He is homely and deep, then he borrows a little from quietism, and, perhaps, it will be no bad thing to absorb, down there, a few drops of that mixture. En Route Nor was he born to chronicle the small beer of everyday life in that spirit of contemplative quietism which is bred out of abundant leisure and retirement. Studies in Literature and History Schiller's worldly circumstances, too, were of a kind well calculated to prevent excess of quietism. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works This absolute abstraction from nature and from culture, this quietism of spiritual isolation, is the ultimate result of the Passive system. Pedagogics as a System The doctrine of quietism and indifference to joy has no place in the ethic of Jesus. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People In quietism; that is, when I fell asleep at sermon time. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection The worst that can be said of it is that its suavity inclines to mawkishness, and that its quietism borders upon sleepiness. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Not less remarkable, or less characteristic, was the revolt against the quietism of the classical school. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Climate, also, must have affected the temperament of the race; and, as the Hindus steadily pressed down the valley of the Ganges into warmer regions, their love of repose and contemplative quietism would continually deepen. Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans The higher Taoist philosophy had made familiar the ideas of quietism and the contemplative life: the age was unsettled, harassed alike by foreign invasion and civil strife. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 There is in the Hinduism of Southern India a peculiar element of conservative quietism to which lawlessness in any form seems to be repugnant. Indian Unrest It has an ordained deliberate aim, is a behaviour-cycle directed to an end; and this it is that marks out the real and fruitful quiet of the contemplative from the non-directed surrender of mere quietism. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Is not the whole ethic of submission and quietism an immense paradox, or rather a great tragic contradiction? Tragic Sense Of Life The most consistent quietists were perhaps those who brought the doctrine of quietism into most discredit, such as the hesychasts of Mount Athos. Christian Mysticism Rossetti's lines do not forbid a life of contemplation, but rather encourage it as distinguished from quietism. The Forgotten Threshold Sa'di had begun his life as a student of the Koran and became early imbued with the quietism of Islam. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 To some extent this is already done: traditionalism and liberalism, sacramentalism, revivalism, quietism, have each their existing cults. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day He has been compared to Dostoevsky, but in his quietism he is the very opposite of Dostoevsky—an author, indeed, of whom he has written impatiently. Old and New Masters It may be escribed as a transition from the more speculative Mysticism towards quietism. Christian Mysticism Under them was the strength of rocks; around them the noiseless growth of needful things; above them the upward-drawing light: two working children of the New World, two pieces of Nature's quietism. The Mettle of the Pasture The state of knowing is eudæmonism, blest repose of contemplation, heavenly quietism. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes He had a deep-seated love of ritual; in spite of his inherited quietism—but for all that he was a very liberal Churchman, of the school of Kingsley rather than of the school of Pusey. The Silent Isle Who prates of calm Nirvana, of quietism's joys? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 12, 1890 Their Platonism is not of the debased Oriental type, and is entirely free from self-absorbed quietism. Christian Mysticism Yet it is not a doctrine of quietism that is here preached, as if inner peace were the supreme thing in life, but rather one of hopeful endeavor. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Yes, it must be admitted, in spite of modern quietism,—man's life is a permanent war, war with want, war with nature, war with his fellows, and consequently war with himself. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery The woman's quietism and piety passed on to his different nature undiminished; but whereas in her it was a native sentiment, in him it was only an implanted dogma. Weir of Hermiston This is the meaning of your skepticism, of your quietism, of your atheism, my poor fellow. The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy Professor Seth considers quietism the true conclusion from the mystic's premisses. Christian Mysticism Nevertheless it would be a great mistake to read into the poem anything like a recommendation of quietism. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller After the exquisite quietism of this farewell, it is distracting to come precipitately upon the fine gentleman with the great wig and the Frenchified airs. The Complete Angler 1653 Asceticism, quietism, enthusiasm, ecstasy—all systems which imply an unnatural repression or an unnatural excitation of our faculties—are ill-suited for the mass of mankind. Wordsworth My western conscience, penetrated as it is with Christian morality, has always persecuted my oriental quietism and Buddhist tendencies. Amiel's Journal What was remarkable was that this 'selflessness' had in it no element of 'quietism.' The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 The pious, devout, and learned Spanish divine was worthy of a better fate, and perhaps a little more quietism and a little less restlessness would not be amiss in our busy nineteenth century. Books Fatal to Their Authors Such pantheism and quietism often lead to a confusion in moral relations, but these mystics were quite correct in their morals because they checked up their mysticism with the moral system of the Buddha. Buddhism and Buddhists in China Ṣufism, however, which in the outset was a spiritual pantheism, combined with quietism, developed in a way that was by no means so satisfactory. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions The only difference is that my weakness takes sometimes the form of despairing melancholy and sometimes that of a cheerful quietism. Amiel's Journal This is the meaning of your scepticism, of your quietism, of your atheism, my poor fellow. The History of Pendennis The Evangelical Union, in which Lutheranism and political quietism prevailed, refused its aid to the Calvinist and usurping King of Bohemia. Lectures and Essays He resisted as a temptation the philosophic quietism which had been his strength and his pride. Our Friend the Charlatan But progress, not quietism, is the principle which governs humanity and it is favoured by events of most different nature. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 For the immediate sacrifice was very real to a youth trained in quietism and non-resistance, and well aware, as a Whig journalist, of the ostracism visited upon the active Abolitionists. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters The Quaker's doctrine of the inward light, his quietism, contemplation, and advanced ideas were quite incomprehensible to them. The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware With your quietism, one could live happily for a hundred years at least. The Idiot On the other hand, political action was a blind-alley leading to reformism and quietism. The Mutiny of the Elsinore Hence his moderation in prosperity, his fortitude in adversity, his dignity, his perfect self-dominance and, lastly, his lofty quietism which sounds the true heroic ring. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 I shall be charged with mysticism, Behmenism, quietism, &c., but that shall not alarm me. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater We associate a certain quietism and passivity with the thought of the Eastern peoples. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning "Certainly that isn't much like quietism," murmured Alexandra, half to herself. The Idiot But Brissenden was not a disciple of quietism, and he changed his attitude abruptly. Martin Eden |
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