"... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul."

-- Josef Pieper

#Soul Quotes #Empty Quotes #Contemplation Quotes

“One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.”
“The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'”
“Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.”
“Sven Schumann did an interview with photographer Wolfgang Tillmans in Berlin addressing the question: What is photography today when everyone is a photographer? These kinds of questions and answers you find in a magazine, on paper and not on Instagram. For me this is the essence of a magazine - it's questioning what's going on today and celebrating true creativity without compromise.”
“Our prayers at this time are prompted by the fact that the Governor of Illinois today is signing into Illinois law the redefinition of civil marriage, introducing not only an unprecedented novelty into our state law, but also institutionalizing an objectively sinful reality.”
“Hopefully we have a slightly different vibe, but also East Side is where a lot young people live. It is a really fun, trendy, funky neighborhood, and it is ripe for satire, that area specifically.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“The middle years of life come on like thunder.”
“I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.”

You may also like:

Aristotle
Philosopher
Etienne Gilson
Philosopher
Jacques Maritain
Philosopher
James V. Schall
Teacher
Plato
Philosopher
Romano Guardini
Author
Saint Augustine
Saint
Seraphim Rose
Author
Thomas Aquinas
Priest