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War is a defeat for humanity.

Pope John Paul II

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore… prove ultimately futile.

Pope John Paul II

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Pope John Paul II

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.

Pope John Paul II

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Pope John Paul II

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

Pope John Paul II

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

Pope John Paul II

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Pope John Paul II

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

Pope John Paul II

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Pope John Paul II

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Pope John Paul II

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

Pope John Paul II

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.

Pope John Paul II

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

Pope John Paul II

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

Pope John Paul II

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ’s vineyard.

Pope John Paul II

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Pope John Paul II

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

Pope John Paul II

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Pope John Paul II

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

Pope John Paul II

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Pope John Paul II

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?

Pope John Paul II

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Pope John Paul II

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

Pope John Paul II

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

Pope John Paul II

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

Pope John Paul II

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

Pope John Paul II

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Pope John Paul II

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Pope John Paul II

Young people are threatened… by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Pope John Paul II

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Pope John Paul II

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Pope John Paul II

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

Pope John Paul II

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

Pope John Paul II

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Pope John Paul II

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

Pope Francis

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

Pope Francis

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Pope Francis

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

Pope Francis

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Pope Francis

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

Pope Francis

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Pope Francis

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Pope Francis

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Pope Francis

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

Pope Francis

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

Pope Francis

You might say, ‘Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?’ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Pope Francis

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

Pope Francis

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

Pope Francis

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Pope Francis

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn’t care much for themselves, God doesn’t bless them. I didn’t want to be pope.

Pope Francis

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

Pope Francis

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

Pope Francis

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Pope Francis

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Pope Francis

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

Pope Francis

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

Pope Francis

I like it when someone tells me ‘I don’t agree.’ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‘Oh, how great, how great, how great,’ that’s not useful.

Pope Francis

A church without women would be like the apostolic college without Mary. The Madonna is more important than the apostles, and the church herself is feminine, the spouse of Christ and a mother.

Pope Francis

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

Pope Francis

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Pope Francis

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.

Pope Francis

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

Pope Francis

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Pope Francis

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

Pope Francis

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

Pope Francis

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

Pope Francis

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Pope Francis

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‘security,’ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Pope Francis

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

Pope Francis

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

Pope Francis

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Pope Francis

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Pope Francis

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Pope Francis

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

Pope Francis

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

Pope Francis

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Pope Francis

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Pope Francis

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

Pope Francis

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God’s people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

Pope Francis

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Pope Francis

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

Pope Francis

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Pope Francis

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Pope Francis

This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

Pope Francis

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

Pope Francis

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Pope Francis

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

Pope Francis

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

Pope Francis

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

Pope Francis

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Pope Francis

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

Pope Francis

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

Pope Francis

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Pope Francis

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Pope Francis

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

Pope Francis

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

Pope Francis

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Pope Francis

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Pope Francis

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Pope Francis

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person.

Pope Francis

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Pope Francis

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Pope Francis

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Pope Francis

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

Pope Francis

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

Pope Francis

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

Pope Francis

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church’s credibility.

Pope Francis

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

Pope Francis

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Pope Francis

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

Pope Francis

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

Pope Francis

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Pope Francis

God always has patience.

Pope Francis

There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

Pope Francis

Work ends up dehumanizing people.

Pope Francis

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Pope Francis

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Pope Francis

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Pope Francis

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‘What are we going to do?’ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Pope Francis

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

Pope Francis

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

Pope Francis

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

Pope Francis

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Pope Francis

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

Pope Francis

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone!

Pope Francis

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

Pope Francis

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

Pope Francis

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

Pope Francis

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

Pope Francis

Money has to serve, not to rule.

Pope Francis

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

Pope Francis

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Pope Francis

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Pope Francis

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Pope Francis

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

Pope Francis

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Pope Francis

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Pope Francis

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Pope Francis

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

Pope Francis

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

Pope Francis

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Pope Francis

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Pope Francis

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

Pope Francis

We all have the duty to do good.

Pope Francis

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Pope Francis

The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation.

Pope Francis

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Pope Francis

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Pope Francis

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Pope Francis

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Pope Francis

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

Pope Francis

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Pope Francis

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Pope Francis

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

Pope Francis

I’ve always been a thrift store kid.

Playboi Carti

I don’t like baggy clothes.

Playboi Carti

I was the first to wear colored skinny jeans.

Playboi Carti

Where I am from, people are into designer brands, but not, like, the cool ones, just like any designer brand, and I wasn’t that type.

Playboi Carti

It’s all about the flow and the beat. Rap is more than just music now.

Playboi Carti

I’m getting into interior design.

Playboi Carti

Curren$y used to be my favorite rapper.

Playboi Carti

When you go out, go out with a bang, anything you do.

Playboi Carti

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Pope Francis

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

Pope Francis

I’m the type of guy that always respect the older rappers who paved the way for us to get here.

Playboi Carti

I feel like I have something to prove. I’m just not this cool fashion kid that be around ASAP Rocky.

Playboi Carti

I love women to death.

Playboi Carti

You cannot be from Atlanta and not know who Gucci Mane is, period.

Playboi Carti

I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my own thing going with this music.

Playboi Carti

As an artist, you always want to never forget where you come from.

Playboi Carti

A lot of my fans come from the SoundCloud platform.

Playboi Carti

I want my impact to be legendary.

Playboi Carti

I feel like it’s important for me to expand, to create my own label. With a label, I can just give someone the opportunity that I was given, you know? That’s what it’s all about, just helping.

Playboi Carti

I want everyone to remember me as just a mogul.

Playboi Carti

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Plato

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Plato

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

Plato

Frank Ocean, he’s the G.O.A.T.

Playboi Carti

I didn’t have anything growing up.

Playboi Carti

I want everybody to get money.

Playboi Carti

I didn’t have Cartier. I didn’t have Gucci, Louis, none of that.

Playboi Carti

I’m really into Bam Margera. I’ve met him twice now. He’s, like, crazy.

Playboi Carti

You really don’t find too many good people. You really don’t. Keep them around.

Playboi Carti

I’m an OG. I was an OG when I was 16. I was an OG when I made the decision I don’t want to go to school anymore and start skipping to make music.

Playboi Carti

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Plato

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Plato

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

Plato

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Plato

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Plato

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Plato

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Plato

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Plato

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Plato

The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Plato

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Plato

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Plato

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Plato

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Plato

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Plato

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Plato

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Plato

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Plato

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Plato

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Plato

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Plato

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Plato

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Plato

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Plato

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Plato

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Plato

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Plato

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Plato

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Plato

The good is the beautiful.

Plato

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Plato

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Plato

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Plato

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Plato

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

Plato

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Plato

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Plato

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Plato

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Plato

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Plato

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Plato

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Plato

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Plato

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Plato

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Plato

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Plato

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Plato

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Plato

Life must be lived as play.

Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

Plato

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Plato

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Plato

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Plato

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Plato

There is no such thing as a lovers’ oath.

Plato

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Plato

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Plato

Necessity… the mother of invention.

Plato

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Plato

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Plato

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Plato

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Plato

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Plato

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Plato

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Plato

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Plato

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Plato

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Plato

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Plato

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Plato

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Plato

Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Plato

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Plato

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Plato

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Plato

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Plato

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Plato

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Plato

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Plato

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Plato

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Plato

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Plato

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Plato

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Plato

Knowledge is true opinion.

Plato

Democracy passes into despotism.

Plato

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Plato

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Plato

It is right to give every man his due.

Plato

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Plato

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Plato

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Plato

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Plato

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Plato

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Plato

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Plato

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Plato

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Plato

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Plato

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Plato

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

Man – a being in search of meaning.

Plato

Science is nothing but perception.

Plato

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Plato

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Plato

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Plato

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Plato

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‘Le Milieu Divin,’ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant ‘centers of resort’: the soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers – extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Plato

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Plato

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Plato

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed it does. In the absence of any absolutely sensational discovery in prehistory, there is an up-to-date and scientific manner of understanding man, which is solidly based on palaeontology.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ’s rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

My own laugh is the real thing and I’ve had it all my life.

Phyllis Diller

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

Phyllis Diller

The last thing I’d learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

Phyllis Diller

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

Phyllis Diller

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle – keep away from children.

Phyllis Diller

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

Phyllis Diller

The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing at you.

Phyllis Diller

The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Phyllis Diller

I asked the waiter, ‘Is this milk fresh?’ He said, ‘Lady, three hours ago it was grass.’

Phyllis Diller

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Phyllis Diller

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

Phyllis Diller

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

Phyllis Diller

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

Phyllis Diller

You know you’re old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you’re barefoot.

Phyllis Diller

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Phyllis Diller

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Phyllis Diller

My photographs don’t do me justice – they just look like me.

Phyllis Diller

You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type.

Phyllis Diller

There’s so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

Phyllis Diller

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.

Phyllis Diller

It’s a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I’d be rotten to the core.

Phyllis Diller

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Phyllis Diller

What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

Phyllis Diller

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

Phyllis Diller

If it weren’t for baseball, many kids wouldn’t know what a millionaire looked like.

Phyllis Diller

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Phyllis Diller

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis Diller

I’ve been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Phyllis Diller

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

You know you’re old if your walker has an airbag.

Phyllis Diller

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

Phyllis Diller

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

Phyllis Diller

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

Phyllis Diller

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.

Phyllis Diller

It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

Phil McGraw

Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?

Phyllis Diller

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Phyllis Diller

Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.

Phyllis Diller

I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing.

Phyllis Diller

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Phyllis Diller

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing.

Phyllis Diller

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.

Phyllis Diller

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourself.

Phil McGraw

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I’m not saying that’s bad.

Phil McGraw

As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

Phil McGraw

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

Phil McGraw

I don’t care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program – that emotion will fade.

Phil McGraw

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

Phil McGraw

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Phil McGraw

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.

Phil McGraw

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Phil McGraw

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

Phil McGraw

I’m not a politician.

Phil McGraw

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Phil McGraw

I just am not good at math.

Phil McGraw

I mean, I’m very, very competitive.

Phil McGraw

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