Quotes
Authors
Bernard Lonergan

"Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions."

Source : Bernard Lonergan (1992). “Insight: A Study of Human Understanding”, p.77, University of Toronto Press

Bernard Lonergan

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“We should have at least one new idea in the job training part of the platform. Otherwise, why don't we just take the 1964 platform and adopt it?”
“The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream.”
“Every time somebody ever told you that you weren't gonna amount to anything, you know, that's your time to shine, you know? You can show everybody and prove to yourself what you're doing is real and that it counts and that it makes a difference.”
“The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.”

Source : "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 6, 2012.
“Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.”
“It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.”
“Given the way the system was, what could I do as I one person, other than devote my life to fighting to make it different? If I had allowed myself to be filled with hate, I probably wouldn't even be alive, because that hate could've killed me. That hate would've blinded me to my contributions in terms of how I could make a difference. You can't think straight when you're consumed by hate and focused on destroying someone else. Instead, I was bent on trying to destroy a system that was not fair to all of us, and I continue to do that.”
“One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.”

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