For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people:...
Earthly life is full of soporifics, anaesthetics, pain-dullers. In fact, compared with Purgatory our whole life on earth will appear to have been life only half awake. In Purgatory we will be fully aw...
Dostoyevsky says, love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams (The Brothers Karamazov).
De Caussade makes this matter of duty very simple, too, as he makes everything simple: We have two duties to fulfill: we must actively seek to carry God’s will into effect and passively accept all tha...
Corruptio optimi pessima. The corruption of the best things are the worst things.
But we will probably never see this, never move from original selfishness to universal charity and unselfishness, without the intermediate step of the family.
But a sneer can be a greater crime than a murder subjectively, for a sneer means You are beneath contempt, you are sub-human, you are worthless scum, you are not even worth taking the trouble and time...
As I said, relativism says there are no absolutes. Absolutely no absolutes.
Aristotle also believed that a vacuum was impossible.
Angels are made of pure spirit (mind and will) without matter, without bodies. Therefore they must communicate by mental telepathy.
And what is consensus? It means a majority of the individuals in a society coming together and agreeing to make their values into laws, or 'society's standards.' A law is enforced only by force. So yo...
Ancient ethics always dealt with three questions. Modern ethics usually deals with only one, or at the most two. The three questions are like the three things a fleet of ships is told by its sailing o...
All the way to Heaven is Heaven, said Saint Catherine of Siena. We
All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people.
After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you m...
A fundamental principle of Catholic theology is that grace perfects nature rather than setting it aside; and that means that the Christian life is not a two-layer cake, the supernatural simply added o...
A God made in the world's image can't save the world.
Fiat!)
Virtue used to mean power, might, or energy.)
That’s why contraception is wrong by nature: it’s a limit, a Wait! Hold! No! Not quite! We won’t give each other Everything)