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One Quotes by Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell…
- If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one…
- The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is…
- The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits…
- No one should think he can quickly dispose of questions posed here offhandedly. It was precisely because writers were in the habit during the time…
- Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally…
- Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait,…
- It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather…
- To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle