Bernard Lonergan on discovery
Bernard Lonergan18 quotes“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.”
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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 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 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.
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 The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God’s gift.
Bernard LonerganBernard Lonergan
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No harm will happen to the bounty of the sun, which is everlasting. This spirit has the power of discovery; it encompasses all things.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha Even through the limitless space of the heavens – surround all that exists, and make discoveries in the exalted spheres and infinite distances. .
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
Abbe PierreAbbe Pierre I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.
Aaron SiskindAaron Siskind Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
Edward AlbeeEdward Albee Love at first sight’some say misnaming Discovery of twinned helplessness Against the huge tug of procreation. But friendship at first sight? This also Catches fiercely at the surprised heart So that the cheek blanches then blushes.
Robert GravesRobert Graves Love at first sight’some say misnaming Discovery of twinned helplessness Against the huge tug of procreation. But friendship at first sight? This also Catches fiercely at the surprised heart So that the cheek blanches then blushes.
Robert GravesRobert Graves Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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