John Courtney Murray famous quotes

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Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.
-- John Courtney Murray

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The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.
-- John Courtney Murray

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When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Expression and communication in the peakâ€“experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.
The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige
Stop spending your time; start investing your time.

John Courtney Murray famous quotes

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