Tag: truth

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires....

Love isn’t always a physical emotion. Sometimes it’s the ones who never got to actually hold you in their arms that appreciate you for who you are...

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality....

The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good....

Every being, created by God and unspoiled by man, is perfect, strictly defined and autonomous, entirely complete and at the same time with a built-in ability to grow and develop. This is the essence of its dignity and holiness. It is...

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo – that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices....

Man’s naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages....

Do you think you wear a mask?’‘I’m wearing one right now.’ Valentino smiled softly. ‘We both are.’‘It’s a sad thought.’‘Yes,’ he said. ‘But sometimes I wonder about the alternative. Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What...

..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man....

The problem with religion, because it’s been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation....