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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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything.
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I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
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You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
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History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.
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And now in one hour's time I'll be out there again. I'll raise my eyes and look down that corridor four feet wide with ten lonely seconds to justify my whole existence.
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Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.
