Books Quote by Antonin Artaud

“Augustine reflects that “what made me a slave to it was the habit [consuetudo] of satisfying an insatiable lust.”31”

— Elaine Pagels

“The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“But Augustine knew the Bible’s main mission: so that we can become people who love God and love others. If our reading of the…

— Scot McKnight

“Fascination arises when the unconscious has been moved.”

— C.G. Jung

“There is much: recognition of the fact that human beings live indeterminate and incomplete lives; recognition of the power exerted over and upon us…

— Jean Bethke Elshtain

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

— Jonathan Haidt

“The more deeply we live, the more we feel in sympathy with Augustine, and the less with Pelagius.”

— Herman Bavinck

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

— Jim Rohn

“But a terror of this nature, as it occupies and expands the mind, and elevates it to high expectation, is purely sublime, and leads…

— Ann Radcliffe

“St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often,” he said. “ ‘God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.’ And maybe that is…

— Anne Rice

“AUGUSTINE: People love truth when it shines on them and hate it when it rebukes them. For,”

— Cindy Crosby

The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.

— Napoleon Hill