"If somebody is going to try to paste……" — Paul Ryan
"If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand."
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161 Quotes by Paul Ryan
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Yes, absolutely because we think there is a way to do this through earned legalization without rewarding people who have…
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Elections have consequences. And I fundamentally believe - this is my personal opinion, I know it's a slightly partisan thing…
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I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.
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I voted to send people to war.
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I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it…
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Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.
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More Aquinas Quotes
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Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed…
— Carl Sagan
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A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust…
— Martin Luther
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for…
— David Berlinski
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I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it…
— Paul Ryan
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One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul…
— Robert Barron
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There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to…
— Bertrand Russell
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Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
— Lionel Blue
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Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads…
— Edward Feser
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Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s…
— Mishka
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I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that…
— James A. Michener
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Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of…
— Allan Bloom
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