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The great Bonaventure said that the wise must enhance conceptual clarity with the truth implicit in the actions of the simple....""Like the chapter of...more

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I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world than in the Christian. The Christian world makes it...more

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Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe—with charity—that t...more

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Is there a notion of hope (and of our responsibility to the future) that could be shared by believers and nonbelievers? What can it be based on now? D...more

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Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

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Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun.

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the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and wo...more

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Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead o...more

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But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity; it can be captured only by set...more

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In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not come from the tribe of Judas, as...more

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National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the sam...more

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People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.