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Action Quotes by Thomas Merton
- If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond…
- Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of…
- Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered...
- There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom,…
- Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.
- Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
- Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being,…
- Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious…
- A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man…
- Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that…
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- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle