Jean Danielou famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.
-- Jean Danielou

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We have only to see how that which makes up the reality of our lives relates to our vocation; we have only to hear the call God makes to us to work with him. Quite often it is not a matter of doing something different, but doing it differently.
-- Jean Danielou

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The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.
-- Jean Danielou

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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.
Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.
Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.

Jean Danielou famous quotes

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