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An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
- Ravi Zacharias
It's a daily plan to solve the problems thrown at us and emerge stronger. You pick things up on the way, and you even learn from the players you work with, but your overall philosophy doesn't change.
- Roberto Di Matteo
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.
- Anselm of Canterbury
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse
- St. Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
- St. Augustine
What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.
- St. Augustine
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.
- Samuel Beckett
Nothing to be done. I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.
- Samuel Beckett