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 LONERGANNo matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.
More Bernard Lonergan Quotes
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Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.
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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.
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Now, in an utterly simple being there can be nothing that is not that simple being itself. In God, therefore, whatever really is, is the same as God, is the same as that which is, is the same as that which subsists, and hence necessarily subsists.
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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.
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No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.
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Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.
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Choice is a determinant in personal development … by my free acts I am making myself.
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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.
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For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man’s freedom reaches its highest point.
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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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The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God’s gift.
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