Achievement Quote by Bernard Lonergan

Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but…

— Bernard Lonergan

It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be…

— Bernard Lonergan

Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

— Bernard Lonergan

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

— Bernard Lonergan

For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There…

— Bernard Lonergan

The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

— Bernard Lonergan

No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

— Bernard Lonergan

“To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.”

— Bernard Lonergan

Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even…

— Bernard Lonergan

Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius…

— Bernard Lonergan

The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all…

— Bernard Lonergan

God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the first principle…

— Bernard Lonergan