Bernard Lonergan Quotes
Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.
Quotes to Explore
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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.
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In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.
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However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.
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Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.
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The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.
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Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
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I will never run out of quotes. I am, after all, the Thom Yorke.
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I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.
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I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.
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I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.
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You minimize my moves in anyway, I must persuade you another way.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.
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"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."
