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“Me han sido reveladas semejantes cosas que lo que he escrito me parece paja”
“La inconstancia es un pecado especial de la prudencia”
“Justicia sin misericordia es crueldad”
“The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous. Commentary on the Metaphysics (c. 1270”
“It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin. Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate”
“Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship. Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate”
“Reason in man is rather like God in the world. Opuscule II, De Regno”
“Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful. Commentary on Romans , cap 14, I 3”
“O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow. Verbum Supernum Prodiens (hymn for Lauds on Corpus Christi), stanza 5”
“Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away : O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed. Sacris Solemniis Juncta Sint Gaudia (Matins hymn for Corpus Christi), stanza 6”
“Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail. Pange, Lingua , stanza 5”
“Pange, Lingua (hymn for Vespers on the Feast of Corpus Christi), stanza 1”
“Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium Sanguinisque pretiosi, Quem in mundi pretium Fructus ventris generosi Rex effudit gentium. Sing, my tongue, the Savior's glory, Of His Flesh the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our immortal King.”
“There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves. 17 January 1837”
“There is a contrast of primary significance between Augustine and Pelagius. The former crushes everything in order to rebuild it again. The other addresses himself to man as he is. The first system, therefore, in respect to Christianity, falls into three stages: creation”
“One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states). How many people are just adjectives, interjections, conjunctions, adverbs? How few are substantives, active verbs, how many are copulas? Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. Journals A 126”
“I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul ; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away”
“in order to see and observe,”
“How close men, despite all their knowledge, usually live to madness? What is truth but to live for an idea? When all is said and done, everything is based on a postulate; but not until it no longer stands on the outside, not until one lives in it, does it cease to be a postulate. (Dialectic”
“It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat”
“What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die. Journal entry, Gilleleie (1 August 1835) Journals 1A; this is considered to be one of the earliest statements of existentialist thought.”
“It will be easy for us once we receive the ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many are there who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution? Journal entry, August 1, 1835”
“The reason I cannot really say that I positively enjoy nature is that I do not quite realize what it is that I enjoy. A work of art, on the other hand, I can grasp. I can”
“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. Tractates on the Gospel of John ; tractate XII on John 3:6”
“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. Enchiridion ( c. 420 ), Ch. 27”
“An unjust law is no law at all. On Free Choice Of The Will , Book 1, § 5”
“Alternate translation: With love for mankind and hatred of sins (vices).”
“Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum. Love the sinner and hate the sin . Opera Omnia , Vol II. Col. 962, letter 211”
“The superfluities of the rich are the necessaries of the poor. They who possess superfluities, possess the goods of others. Patrologia Latina , vol. 37, p. 1922”
“I will send you the Paraclete who will teach you about the course of the sun and moon.”
“I am sending you a Paraclete who will teach you about the course of the sun and moon .”
“Noli foras ire, in teipsum redi, in interiore homine habitat veritas. Et si tuam naturam mutabilem inveneris, trascende et teipsum . Do not go outside yourself, return to yourself: truth dwells in the interiority of man and, if you find that your nature is changeable, transcend yourself too . As quoted in De vera religione , XXXIX, 72”
“Augustine, Augustine, quid quaeris? Putasne brevi immettere vasculo mare totum? "Augustinus, Augustinus, what are you trying to do? Do you believe to be able to pour the whole sea in a little jar? As quoted in the letter of Augustine to saint Cyril of Jerusalem related to the treaty titled On the Trinity”