Bernard Lonergan on orientation
Bernard Lonergan18 quotes“And that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.”
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If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan It dismantles and abolishes the horizon within which our knowing and choosing went on, and it sets up a new horizon within which the love of God transvalues our values and the eyes of that love transform our knowing.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan Choice is a determinant in personal development … by my free acts I am making myself.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan If the rejection is universal, then it is the self-destructive proposition that there are no true propositions. If the rejection is limited to the dogmas, then it is just a roundabout way of saying that all the dogmas are false.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan Like all being in love, as distinct from particular acts of loving, it is a first principle. So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man’s freedom reaches its highest point.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the first principle of all things, there can be no real composition whatever in God.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan
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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
Alan DundesAlan Dundes I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
Alan ChambersAlan Chambers I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
Alan ChambersAlan Chambers You are so much more, than your orientation, you know it and I know it.
Adam LambertAdam Lambert I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott KingCoretta Scott King Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
Karl RahnerKarl Rahner Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
Dave ChappelleDave Chappelle My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She’s a workaholic, like I am. We’re not super family-oriented people, you know?
Kelly ClarksonKelly Clarkson
