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Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical…
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Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and…
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The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do…
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Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.
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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the…
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In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey…
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The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
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The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life…
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Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb,…
— John of Salisbury
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The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic.
— Ronald Rolheiser
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I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study,…
— Venerable Bede
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Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to…
— Martin Luther
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If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic…
— Henry Rollins
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Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important…
— Thomas Merton
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to…
— Albert Camus
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You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once…
— Jim Carrey
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