Bernard Lonergan Quotes
For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you'll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life.
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When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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I have to let him know that he's potentially destroying his movie, that he could be making a terrible, terrible error. I needed to let him know that I didn't know or think that I was capable of doing this.
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Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
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Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
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I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.
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The sand as white as old bones, the pine trees strangely red where the sun comes down. I cannot say if it is our love, or the day, that is ending.
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Don't get up. Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.
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From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
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[A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana's Mike Mansfield. He, like McConnell, had a low emotional metabolism but a subtle sense of the Senate's singular role in the nation's constitutional equilibrium.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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I'm a pro-growth, small-government conservative with a background in free enterprise.
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Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?
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For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself.
