Friday, November 11, 2011

"a certain beatitude of our body"

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     "Thus, although sensible perception, apparently disparaged at the beginning [of the 'Adore te deuote'] (v. 5), is revealed...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

"although we can in a way understand God without understanding his goodness, we cannot understand God by understanding that he is not good".

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"licet nos intelligamus aliqualiter Deum, non intelligendo eius bonitatem, non tamen possumus intelligere Deum intelligendo eum non ess...

Lieux d'oubli

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     "What is new, at least in the modern era, is the neglect of history. Every memorial, every museum, every shorthand commemorative ...
Saturday, November 5, 2011

"no myths, no glory, no peasants", or "'Will French cuisine be all that remains when everything else is forgotten?'"

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"Lieux de mémoire, as Nora puts it in his introductory essay, 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de mémoire, settings...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

"the LORD is God; there is no other".

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“The Christian-Jewish God is the incomparable Wholly Other and One [(der unvergleichbare völlig Andere und Eine)]; but a god in Greco-Roman ...
Friday, October 28, 2011

"Very ignorant, very innocent and very civilized."

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Primo Levi, "Of 'Cesare' (Lello Perugia, his Italian companion on the journey home [from Auschwitz])," as quoted by Tony J...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

"The burning bush is the Cross. The highest claim of revelation, the 'I am he,' and the Cross of Jesus are inseparably one."

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"'When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am [( τότε γνώσεσθε ὅτι ἐγω εἰμι )]. . . .'" Jn 8:28...