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We need an enemy to give people hope. Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards: those without moral principles usually wrap a flag a...more

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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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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionar...more

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Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

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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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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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I say that many of these heresies, independently of the doctrines they assert, encounter success among the simple because they suggest to such people ...more

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The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.

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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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El diablo no es el príncipe de la materia, el diablo es la arrogancia del espíritu, la fe sin sonrisa, la verdad jamás tocada por la duda.

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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