Philosophy makes literature clear, literature makes philosophy real.
Mercy is Truth clothed; judgment is Truth naked.
We catch the good infection of Godliness by contact.
The instinct Rousseau found in himself and followed: the instinct to deceive, rob, and seduce rich ladies and to abandon his own children.
To undo a contradiction, make a distinction.
Sex for reproduction
Ora et labora, prayer and work.
For even though our prayer-contact with God may be almost infinitely poor, the God we thus contact is infinitely rich!
For everything naturally desires good,
Of all the natural virtues these four are cardinal, i.e., the hinges (cardes) on which all other virtues turn, the foundations on which all the other virtues are built.
The perennial temptation is to creep under the angel’s flaming sword, to try to create a heaven on earth.
The only honest reason for anyone ever to believe anything is that it is true, that it is really there.
KANT: The traditional religious foundation for morality may be ontologically stronger, but I say it is not logically or epistemologically stronger. It cannot be proved by speculative, theoretical reas...
Manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.
It is possible to love one’s friend for another reason than God, whereas God is the only reason for loving one’s enemy.
It’s the same world as ours but also a different world because no two people see it in exactly the same way.
It’s out of liberal-hearted love and compassion for people that the Church has always been so hardheadedly conservative about doctrine.
A man circling around a woman, or a hunter circling around a deer.
Tempting is not forcing.
We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though...
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