Some Favorite Quotes
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alixtiiLeonardo Boff: "First of all comes the experience of mystery, the experience of God. Only afterward does faith supervene. Faith is not primarily adhesion to a teaching that gives access to revelation and the supernatural. Then faith would be tantamount to ideology, in the sense of an idea or belief inculcated in someone from outside. This extrinsic character of so-called faith can give rise to various forms of fundamentalism and religious warfare. All groups tend to affirm their own truths to the exclusion of all others. Faith is meaningful and possesses truth only when it represents a response to an experience of God made personally and communally. Then faith is the expression of an encounter with God which embraces all existence and feeling--the heart, the intellect, and the will."
Immanuel Kant: "This domain is an island, enclosed by nature itself within unalterable limits. It is the land of truth -- enchanting name! -- surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the native home of illusion, where many a fog bank and many a swiftly melting iceberg give the deceptive appearance of farther shores, deluding the adventurous seafarer ever anew with empty hopes, and engaging him [sic] in enterprises which he [sic] can never abandon and yet is unable to carry to com-
pletion. Before we venture on this sea, to explore it in all directions and to obtain assurance whether there be any ground for such hopes, it will be well to begin by casting a glance upon the map of the land which we are about to leave, and to enquire, first, whether we cannot in any case be satisfied with what it contains -- are not, indeed, under compulsion to be satisfied, inasmuch as there may be
no other territory upon which we can settle; and, secondly, by what title we possess even this domain, and can consider ourselves as secured against all opposing claims."
Max Weber: "However, it is immensely moving when a mature man [sic]--no matter whether old or young in years--is aware of a responsibility for the consequences of his [sic] conduct and really feels such responsibility with heart and soul. He [sic] then acts by following an ethic of responsibility and somewhere he [sic] reaches the point where he [sic] says: 'Here I stand; I can do no other.' That is something genuinely human and moving. And every one of us who is not spiritually dead must realize the possibility of finding himself [sic] at some time in that position."
Also, the "Add them as a friend" in my navbar uses singular they, which makes me happy.
Immanuel Kant: "This domain is an island, enclosed by nature itself within unalterable limits. It is the land of truth -- enchanting name! -- surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the native home of illusion, where many a fog bank and many a swiftly melting iceberg give the deceptive appearance of farther shores, deluding the adventurous seafarer ever anew with empty hopes, and engaging him [sic] in enterprises which he [sic] can never abandon and yet is unable to carry to com-
pletion. Before we venture on this sea, to explore it in all directions and to obtain assurance whether there be any ground for such hopes, it will be well to begin by casting a glance upon the map of the land which we are about to leave, and to enquire, first, whether we cannot in any case be satisfied with what it contains -- are not, indeed, under compulsion to be satisfied, inasmuch as there may be
no other territory upon which we can settle; and, secondly, by what title we possess even this domain, and can consider ourselves as secured against all opposing claims."
Max Weber: "However, it is immensely moving when a mature man [sic]--no matter whether old or young in years--is aware of a responsibility for the consequences of his [sic] conduct and really feels such responsibility with heart and soul. He [sic] then acts by following an ethic of responsibility and somewhere he [sic] reaches the point where he [sic] says: 'Here I stand; I can do no other.' That is something genuinely human and moving. And every one of us who is not spiritually dead must realize the possibility of finding himself [sic] at some time in that position."
Also, the "Add them as a friend" in my navbar uses singular they, which makes me happy.