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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy.
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I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly nonsense for Kepler to exult that he was thinking God's thoughts after him. The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal.
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Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.
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Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.
