Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something b...
For if we understood or said that colour is not in a coloured body, or that it is separated from it, there would be error in this opinion or assertion. But if we consider colour and its properties, wi...
Atheism is not a doctrine, it is a cry of wrath.
At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners.
A word of caution, then, is necessary when a statement is made by a scientist turned philosopher, just as a word of caution is necessary when a statement is made by a philosopher turned scientist, or...
God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realised that we shall be judged by the gift we have received...
Libido, or concupiscence, a tending toward certain things in defiance of rational restraint.
For a woman, love is its own reason. I love you because I love you.
A love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved— God—without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage and celibacy are not contraries
You have heard that it has been said: An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other: and if a...
Why is it that the lover of horror cannot stand the sight of the crucifix? Why is it that the fanatics of murder stories are so cold to the story of the world’s greatest sacrifice? The answer is that,...
We live in days of assassins’—where evil is sought in lives more than good to justify a world with a bad conscience.
There would be a course on the philosophy of history; another year the philosophy of Marxism, another the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of science, etc. All of these were presented in the lig...
The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.
The son of Confucius once said to him: I apply myself with diligence to every kind of study, neglect nothing that could render me clever and brilliant; but I do not advance. Omit some of your pursuits...
The porter who took my bag said to me: Everybody knows you; it must be wonderful to be a bishop. And I said to him: Suppose you had four hundred children and ten were very sick and five were dying. Wo...
The physical theory suffers from the same affect as humanism; it attempts to live on its own fat and breathe the very air which it has already exhaled from its scientific lungs.
The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.
The greatest inhumanity that can be ascribed to men is having an opportunity for doing good to others and doing nothing. The serious sin is not always one of commission, but omission.
The day that man forgets that love is identical with sacrifice, he will ask how a God of love could demand mortification and self-denial.