Quote by Thomas Aquinas on Angels and Perception
“To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don’t see ourselves sleeping.”
Thomas von Aquin
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Prayer by Thomas Aquinas for Understanding and Wisdom
“Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.”
Thomas von Aquin
Strange Inversion in Relationships – Quote by Allan Bloom
“We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.”
Allan Bloom
Allan Bloom on Faith and Religious Conflict
“It was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls.”
Allan Bloom
Corporations and the Common Good – Chris Hedges on Capitalism and Exploitation
“We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power.”
Chris Hedges
Quote by Chris Hedges on Moral Principles and Political Engagement
“If we don’t hold fast to our moral principles, nobody’s going to. We don’t have to have a majority, but once ten, fifteen, twenty million people start voting left, we’ll scare the piss out of the Democrats, and they’ll have to respond. But they’re not going to respond to us until that happens.”
Chris Hedges
Allan Bloom on Eros, Language, and Human Connection
“The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak about it in any other way would be to misunderstand it. What has disappeared is the risk and the hope of human connectedness embedded in eros. Ours is a language that reduces the longing for an other to the need for individual, private satisfaction and safety.”
Allan Bloom
Quote by Allan Bloom on Historicism and Cultural Relativism
“Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or whether that opinion is merely a democratic prejudice.”
Allan Bloom
Nikola Tesla on Mental Power and Truth
“The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.”
Nikola Tesla
Quote by Allan Bloom on Romeo and Juliet and the concept of relationship
“Did Romeo and Juliet have a … “relationship”? The term “relationship” … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.”
Allan Bloom