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| 633bffb | For if we understood or said that colour is not in a coloured body, or that it is separated from it, there would be error in this opinion or assertion. But if we consider colour and its properties, without reference to the apple which is coloured; or if we express in words what we thus understand, there is no error in such an opinion or assertion, because an apple is not essential to colour, and therefore, colour can be understood independe.. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 3a459bc | The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 830d974 | Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| dbd74f7 | So it is when we measure ourselves by God, we fall infinitely short; and when we compare ourselves with many who have given us inspiration, we feel a deep sense of unworthiness. But behind it all, and despite all of this, there is the tremendous consciousness of the mercy of God. He did not call angels to be priests; He called men. He did not make gold the vessel for his treasure; He made clay. The motley group of Apostles that He gathered .. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 1ec40d0 | The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| f990344 | I study philosophy after my dinner, but the dinner is not the cause o my studying philosophy. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| b6463ec | It is the forgetfulness of these principles which as made for the anarchy in thinking in so much of the anemic philosophy of our day. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 48d5c31 | The physical theory suffers from the same affect as humanism; it attempts to live on its own fat and breathe the very air which it has already exhaled from its scientific lungs. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 6d86b41 | When experimental psychology limits itself to rats and kittens, squabs and eyelids, philosophy of nature has little opportunity for formation. But when experimental psychology delivers over its findings concerning phenomenal manifestations of the mind, then the philosophy of nature may apply his philosophical principles. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 9bf9fe3 | There are fads ion science, just as there are fads in clothes | science | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| f730fb6 | No worldly mind would ever have suspected that He Who could make the sun warm the earth would one day have need of an ox and an ass to warm Him with their breath; that He Who, in the language of Scriptures, could stop the turning about of Arcturus would have His birthplace dictated by an imperial census; that He, Who clothed the fields with grass, would Himself be naked; that He, from Whose hands came planets and worlds, would one day have .. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| cf96c57 | Atheism is not a doctrine, it is a cry of wrath. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 83ac2b8 | THOSE who start with the pagan philosophy of sex must face life as a descent. Associated with a growing old, there is a loss of physical energy and the horrible perspective of death. The Christian philosophy of love, on the contrary, implies an ascension. The body may grow older, but the Spirit grows younger, and love often becomes more intense. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| fde5492 | An interesting parallel can be drawn between Peter and Judas. There are some similarities, and yet such tremendous differences. First, Our Lord called them both "devils." He called Peter "Satan" when he rebuked Him for saying He would be crucified; He called Judas a devil when He promised the Bread of Life. Second, He warned both that they would fall. Peter said that even though others would deny the Master, he would not. Whereupon, he was .. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| d1d1402 | The pure in heart shall see God, because they always do His will. Purity does not begin in the body but in the will. From there it flows outward, cleansing thought, imagination, and, finally, the body. Bodily purity is a repercussion or echo of the will. Life is impure only when the will is impure. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| d52dbc3 | Look at your heart! It tells the story of why you were made. It is not perfect in shape and contour, like a Valentine Heart. There seems to be a small piece missing out of the side of every human heart. That may be to symbolize a piece that was torn out of the Heart of Christ which embraced all humanity on the Cross. But I think the real meaning is that when God made your human heart, He found it so good and so lovable that He kept a small .. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 54605e3 | hunger is not just an economic problem. It is a moral and spiritual problem. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| c872945 | One day a woman went to the saintly Father John Vianney, the Cure of Ars, in France, and said, "My husband has not been to the sacraments or to Mass for years. He has been unfaithful, wicked, and unjust. He has just fallen from a bridge and was drowned --a double death of body and soul." The Cure answered, "Madam, there is a short distance between the bridge and the water, and it is that distance which forbids you to judge." | Venerable Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| a9a3cd6 | Our Lord was born not just of her flesh but also by her consent. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 7368bc9 | Humility does not mean a submissiveness, a passiveness, a willingness to be walked on, or a desire to live in the doghouse. Humility is a virtue by which we recognize ourselves as we really are, not as we would like to be in the eyes of the public; not as our press notices say we are, but as we are in the sight of God when we examine our conscience. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 1978005 | In almost nine cases out of ten, those who have once had the Faith but now reject it, or claim that it does not make sense, are driven not by reasoning but by the way they are living | catholic-church catholicism | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 00c3785 | God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless "saint." Love can be trained; pride cannot. The man who thinks that he knows will rarely find truth; the man who knows he is a miserable, unhappy sinner, like the woman at the well, is closer to peace, joy and salvation than he knows." | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 03becb4 | It is possible to love more than we know. A simple person in good faith may have a greater love of God than a theologian and, as a result, a keener understanding of the ways of God with the heart than psychologists have. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 362270f | My feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary; Long is the way, and the mountains are wild; Soon will the twilight close moonless and dreary Over the path of the poor orphan child. Why did they send me so far and so lonely, Up where the moors spread and grey rocks are piled? Men are hard-hearted, and kind angels only Watch o'er the steps of a poor orphan child. Yet distant and soft the night breeze is blowing, | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 549b876 | walking across the moors made me feel as if I'd stepped primly out of a Jane Austen book or an Impressionist painting. But I bet even Elizabeth Bennet had never punted a rabbit before, and my current count was 137. | Delilah S. Dawson | ||
| 1dc4b66 | Common sense is not a single unique conception, identical in time and space. It is the "folklore" of philosophy, and, like folklore, it takes countless different forms. Its most fundamental character is that it is a conception which, even in the brain of one individual, is fragmentary, incoherent and inconsequential." -- | philosophy thought | Antonio Gramsci | |
| b4f1cfb | We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of empirical data and a mass of unconnected raw facts, which have to be filed in the brain as in the columns of a dictionary, enabling their owner to respond to the various stimuli from the outside world. This form of culture really is harmful, particularly for the proletariat. It serves only to create maladju.. | Antonio Gramsci | ||
| c77e9d7 | Possibility means "freedom". The measure of freedom enters into the concept of man. That the objective possibilities exist for people not to die of hunder and that people do die of hunger, has its importance, or so one would have thought. But the existence of the objective conditions, of possibilities or of freedom is not yet enough: it is necessary to "know" them, and know how to use them." | knowledge possibility | Antonio Gramsci | |
| 4b3e58f | A man of politics writes about philosophy: it could be that his "true" philosophy should be looked for rather in his writings on politics. In every personality there is one dominant and predominant activity: it is here that his thought must be looked for, in a form that is more often than not implicit and at times even in contradiction with what is professly expressed." | politics | Antonio Gramsci | |
| a1a92a0 | Man can affect his own development and that of his surroundings only so far as he has a clear view of what the possibilities of action are open to him. To do this he has to understand the historical situation in which he finds himself: and once he does this, then he can play an active part in modifying that situation. The man of action is the true philosopher: and the philosopher must of necessity be a man of action. | Antonio Gramsci | ||
| 9075206 | Companies are now experimenting not just with ways to change the pulse or the color of light to create more capacity, but also with new ways of shaping that light that can deliver more than one hundred trillion bits per second down their fiber lines. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 74cfb32 | There is nothing called 'underprivileged' anymore," said Yildiz. "All you need is a working brain, some short training, and then put your idea into a fantastic business from any part of the world!" | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| ed40016 | The rabbi stated: When you look into the face of the person who is beside you, and you can see that person is your brother or your sister, then finally the night has ended, and the day has begun. Hastening that heavenly day, is the moral work of our generation. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 3f74860 | Teller tells his teams: "I don't care how much progress you make this month; my job is to cause your rate of improvement to increase--how do we make the same mistake in half the time for half the money?" In sum, said Teller, what we are experiencing today, with shorter and shorter innovation cycles, and less and less time to learn to adapt, "is the difference between a constant state of destabilization versus occasional destabilization." | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| c3e7afe | We are generating more information and knowledge than ever today, "but knowledge is only good if you can reflect on it." And" | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 6f44d8c | Looking back on all my interviews for this book, how many times in how many different contexts did I hear about the vital importance of having a caring adult or mentor in every young person's life? How many times did I hear about the value of having a coach--whether you are applying for a job for the first time at Walmart or running Walmart? How many times did I hear people stressing the importance of self-motivation and practice and taking.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 1775ed3 | GE's lab is like a mini United Nations. Every engineering team looks like one of those multiethnic Benetton ads. But this was not affirmative action at work; it was a brutal meritocracy. When you are competing in the global technology Olympics every day, you have to recruit the best talent from anywhere you can find it. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 2a699ec | Qua trinh so hoa la kien thuc trong tam de hieu ve qua trinh toan cau hoa ngay nay va ve nhung dieu lam cho no tro nen doc dao | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 27a3caa | Cuu chu tich Hang Truyen Hinh NBC Lawrence Grossman tom tat gon gang qua trinh dan chu hoa cong nghe nhu the nay: "In an bien chung ta thanh doc gia. Photocopy bien chung ta thanh nhung nha xuat ban. Truyen hinh bien chung ta thanh khan gia. Va cong nghe so hoa cho phep chung ta tro thanh cac hang truyen thong." | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| a5097c2 | Tong thong Mexico co the da bay sang New York, quy tu hon 20 ngan hang lon da cho dat nuoc cua ong vay tien va tuyen bo nhu sau: "Thua cac quy vi, chung toi da bi khanh tan. Va quy vi co biet cau ngan ngu nay khong: neu mot nguoi vay cua ban 1000 USD thi do la van de cua anh ta. Nhung neu mot nguoi vay ban 10 trieu USD, thi do la van nan cua ban. Vang, chung toi chinh la van nan cua quy vi. Chung toi khong the thanh toan cho quy vi duoc. Va.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 5ee5303 | Because "pluralism is not diversity alone, but the energetic engagement with diversity," explains the Pluralism Project at Harvard on its website, "mere diversity without real encounter and relationship will yield increasing tensions in our societies." A society being "pluralistic" is a reality (see Syria and Iraq). A society with pluralism "is an achievement" (see America)." | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| dfcd8be | I would go a step further and say that the ROI--return on investment--on pluralism in the age of accelerations will soar and become maybe the single most important competitive advantage for a society--for both economic and political reasons. Politically, | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 6b23b1e | But a growing number of studies, including my own research, suggest that geographic proximity and cultural diversity--a place's openness to different cultures, religions, sexual orientations--also play key roles in economic growth. Skeptics | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| ac12b7a | Chinh vi the, ngay nay khong con khai niem the gioi thu nhat, thu nhi hay thu ba nua. Ngay nay chi con la the gioi phat trien nhanh, va the gioi phat trien cham chap - the gioi cua nhung nguoi bi dao thai sang ben le hay cua nhung nguoi tu chon theo loi song biet lap khong muon nhap vao canh dong rong lon noi tren. Nhung nguoi do co the cho rang, cai the gioi ay di qua nhanh, dang so qua, dong hoa nhieu qua hay doi hoi nhieu qua. | Thomas L. Friedman |