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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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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely ...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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The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of disequilibrium has no more demonstrable value than ...more

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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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Atât de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răspândește de la sine.

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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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Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in al...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 dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the p...more

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Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns...more

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I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and I presume he himself did not know, moved a...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