"Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there."

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Source : Bernard Lonergan (2016). “A Second Collection”, p.17, University of Toronto Press

Bernard Lonergan

#Reality Quotes #Fabric Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.”
“We often ask, "Do we have enough humans?" Because it's always fun to come up with an animal in show, but it begins to feel like overkill.”
“Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.”
“Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.”
“The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n roll thing going on.”
“The biggest names in the Transcendentalist literary circle visited the community regularly, and supported it, but they couldn't live there happily. Hawthorne [who was briefly a resident] left for reasons I'm sure make sense to you; he couldn't get enough writing done in a house full of people playing music, and arguing. It was too busy.”

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“Truths kindle light for truths.”
“My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.”

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