"Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitlerâ€™s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly."

-- Albert Einstein

#Persistence Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung”

Source : "'Le Barbier de Séville' ('The Barber of Seville')". Play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Act I, scene 2, 1775.
“If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.”
“The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.”
“Unquestionably the truth or fallacy of the theory of the survival of the soul is by far the most tremendous question that can exercise the human mind. The more you think of it, the more all other questions seem to sink into utter insignificance, for only if survival be true, can the Universe be rationalized at all.”
“Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.”
“The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.”
“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.”
“You know how everybody has that one weird creepy uncle? Well, Seth Green looks like he got raped by all of them.”

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