Johann Baptist Metz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
I donâ€™t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. [â€¦] I donâ€™t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death
Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
Imagination needs to be fed.
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

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