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In the past men were handsome and great (now they are children and dwarfs), but this is merely one of the many facts that demonstrate the disaster of an aging world.
It is also true that in those dark times a wise man had to believe things that were in contradiction among themselves.
He belongs to that race of men who are always their adversary’s best champions.”
I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.”
“Then why do you want to know?” “Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”
when your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.
Only the powerful always know with great clarity who their true enemies are.
I did not understand then why the men of the church and of the secular arm were so violent against people who wanted to live in poverty
a monk who practices poverty sets a bad example for the populace, for then they cannot accept monks who do not practice it.
logic could be especially useful when you entered it but then left it.
Such is the magic of human languages, that by human accord often the same sounds mean different things.
Christ and the apostles must be considered as individual persons, perfect despisers of the world.
The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God’s will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.
This was the only earthly love of my life, and I could not, then or ever after, call that love by name.
What difference is there, then, between God and primigenial chaos? Isn’t affirming God’s absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?”
