{"id":18,"date":"2012-11-13T10:01:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T10:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/?p=18"},"modified":"2013-10-09T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T10:27:19","slug":"be-still-and-know-where-does-our-motto-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/2012\/11\/13\/be-still-and-know-where-does-our-motto-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Still and Know &#8211; where does our motto come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Sussex Motto \u201cBe still and know\u201d was adopted in 1961 during the second year of teaching at the University \u2013 a year when student fees were only \u00a355! \u00a0It is a quote from the Bible (Psalm 46:10); the whole\u00a0sentence\u00a0reads: &#8220;Be still and know that I am God&#8221;. \u00a0 I recently found a small folder of correspondence that shed some light on the origins of the motto and its meaning. \u00a0In response to a curious enquirer, Lord Fulton revealed in a telephone conversation that he was discussing the issue in the Scottish Hills with friends and felt it was particularly apt for education on the new green campus at Falmer. \u00a0He also chose it for its relation to the Cartesian logic of doubt &#8211; one for the philosophers to think about!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/files\/2012\/11\/University-Motto3.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23 \" title=\"University Motto\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/files\/2012\/11\/University-Motto3-1024x632.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/files\/2012\/11\/University-Motto3-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/files\/2012\/11\/University-Motto3-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/files\/2012\/11\/University-Motto3.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This memo sheds some light on the choice of the University&#39;s Motto<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Sussex Motto \u201cBe still and know\u201d was adopted in 1961 during the second year of teaching at the University \u2013 a year when student fees were only \u00a355! \u00a0It is a quote from the Bible (Psalm 46:10); the whole\u00a0sentence\u00a0reads: &#8220;Be still and know that I am God&#8221;. \u00a0 I recently found a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[206],"tags":[251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}