Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish scientist
Emanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator, mystic and founder of Swedenborgianism. He is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. Wikipedia
Born: January 29, 1688, Stockholm, Sweden
Died: March 29, 1772, London, United Kingdom
Education: Uppsala University
Influenced by: Plato, Isaac Newton, Aristotle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, René Descartes, Augustine of Hippo, Plotinus
Quotes
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
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