"For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself."

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Source : Bernard J. F. Lonergan, Mark D. Morelli, Elizabeth A. Morelli (1997). “The Lonergan Reader”, p.390, University of Toronto Press

Bernard Lonergan

#Responsibility Quotes #Men Quotes #Fields Quotes

“I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.”

Source : Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”
“The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.”
“Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.”
“Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos”
“Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads”
“We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.”
“It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.”
“Look, donâ€™t get me wrong. I worship the ground this guy walks on. Iâ€™m excited to meet him tonight. Iâ€™m dying to meet him tonight. If he wanted to carry me off and make me his love slave, Iâ€™d do it, so long as I got advance copies of his books.”

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