Philosophy, Politics, and Theology Quotes Flashcards
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
Aldous Huxley
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley
If humanism were right in declaring that man is born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.
Aristotle
Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief…[and] what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned.
Austin Farrer
Love has reasons of which reason does not know.
Blaise Pascal
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal
There is a tremendous egotism and conceit in those popular articles and lectures entitled ‘My Idea of Religion’ or ‘My Idea of God.’ An individual religion can be as misleading and uninformed as an individual astronomy or an individual mathematics.
Bp. Fulton J. Sheen
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C.S. Lewis
The real reason I cannot be in communion with you is not my disagreement with this or that Roman doctrine, but to accept your Church means, not to accept a given body of doctrine, but to accept in advance any doctrine your Church hereafter produces. It is like being asked to agree not only to what a man has said, but what he’s going to say.
C.S. Lewis (addressing a group of Catholics)
A mimetic view regards the world as having a given order and a given meaning and thus sees human beings as required to discover that meaning and conform themselves to it. Poiesis, by way of contrast, sees the world as so much raw material out of which meaning and purpose can be created by the individual.
Carl R. Trueman
If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people.
Christopher Walken
To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.
Cicero
There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say. It is an impatient, inattentive listening, that despises the brother and is only waiting for a chance to speak and thus get rid of the other person…. But Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair…the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers
The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don’t know where that elsewhere is.
E.M. Cioran
Hence the intellectual, frustrated in his doubts, seeks out the compensations of dogma. Having reached the confines of analysis, struck down by the void he discovers there, he turns on his heel and attempts to seize the first certainty to come along; but he lacks the naivete to hold onto it; henceforth, a fanatic without convictions, he is no more than an ideologist, a hybrid thinker, such as we find in all transitional periods.
E.M. Cioran
Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
G.K. Chesterton
Societies are far gone in depravity when tolerance is seen as a good in itself, without regard to the thing tolerated.
G.K. Chesterton
Just going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
G.K. Chesterton
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
G.K. Chesterton
When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
G.K. Chesterton (The Everlasting Man)
Who does not find dreams mysterious, and feel that they lie on the dark borderland of being?
G.K. Chesterton (The Everlasting Man)
To say that religion came from reverencing a chief or sacrificing at a harvest is to put a highly elaborate cart before a really primitive horse. It is like saying that the impulse to draw pictures came from the contemplation of the pictures of reindeers in the cave. In other words, it is explaining painting by saying that it arose out of the work of painters; or accounting for art by saying that it arose out of art.
G.K. Chesterton (The Everlasting Man)
