Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but mind conceived in the Kantian sense. The knowledge of...
Even in the realm of pure mathematics, the mathematician may use any set of symbols he desires within any given region of space-time; he may even go so far as to maintain that any one set of symbols f...
Character is to some extent judged by what a man does with his falls. A pig falls into the mud and stays there; a sheep falls in and climbs out.
Atheism is not a doctrine, it is a cry of wrath.
An interesting parallel can be drawn between Peter and Judas. There are some similarities, and yet such tremendous differences. First, Our Lord called them both devils. He called Peter Satan when he r...
No man hates God without first hating himself.
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...
We suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body.
Two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II,
The sadness it feels in attaining any happiness less than the infinite—all these constitute the mating call of God to the soul.
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,...
When experimental psychology limits itself to rats and kittens, squabs and eyelids, philosophy of nature has little opportunity for formation. But when experimental psychology delivers over its findin...
We simply cannot put a man into a crucible to see if he will give off unmistakable green fumes of envy.
The world blesses not the meek, but the vindictive; it praises not the one who turns the other cheek, but the one who renders evil for evil; it exalts not the humble, but the aggressive. Ideological f...
The very word mercy is derived from the Latin miserum cor, a sorrowful heart. Mercy is, therefore, a compassionate understanding of another’s unhappiness.
The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.
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 first part, or the Æsthetics, which has nothing in common with art, disengages the a priori forms of sensible knowledge, namely, the forms of space and time, which furnish mathematics with their o...