Edith Stein Quotes on Knowledge
Edith Stein was a German philosopher, phenomenologist, and Carmelite nun. This page collects quotes attributed to Edith Stein on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Edith Stein:
“Empathy is the experience of foreign consciousness in general.”
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“Letter to Pope Pius XI (1933) as translated in Inside the Vatican (2003), p. 27”
As a child of the Jewish people who, by the grace of God, for the past eleven years has also been a child of the Catholic Church, I dare to speak to the Father of Christianity about that which oppresses millions of Germans. For weeks we have seen deeds perpetrated in Germany which mock any sense of justice and humanity, not to mention love of neighbor. For years the leaders of National Socialism h -
“Letter to Sr. Adelgundis Jaegerschmid, 23 March 1938”
God is truth. All who seek truth seek God, whether this is clear to them or not. -
“Self-Portrait In Letters, 1916-1942 (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 5)”
However, we are not merely used up as cells are, but we can become aware of our relationship with the wholes to which we belong (I even believe one can experience the operative developmental tendencies) and can voluntarily submit to them. The more lively and powerful such a consciousness becomes in a people, the more it forms itself into a "state" and this formation is its organization. The state