Tiago F

“If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.”
― Ambrose of Milan

“I shall speak of the venerable objects of religious belief. Whoever talks of such matters inevitably runs the risk of being torn to pieces by the two parties who are in mortal conflict about those very things. This conflict is due to the strange supposition that a thing is true only if it presents itself as a physical fact. Thus some people believe it to be physically true that Christ was born as the son of a virgin, while others deny this as a physical impossibility. Everyone can see that there is no logical solution to this conflict and that one would do better not to get involved in such sterile disputes. Both are right and both are wrong. Yet they could easily reach agreement if only they dropped the word “physical.” “Physical” is not the only criterion of truth: there are also psychic truths which can neither be explained nor proved nor contested in any physical way. If, for instance, a general belief existed that the river Rhine had at one time flowed backwards from its mouth to its source, then this belief would in itself be a fact even though such an assertion, physically understood, would be deemed utterly incredible. Beliefs of this kind are psychic facts which cannot be contested and need no proof.”
― C.G. Jung

“She had begun penning these ideas in a series of journalistic pieces in the Spectator. ‘These questions depend on another’, she explained, ‘what sort of creature are we trying to train? What is he capable of?’ ‘Man is at least a spiritual animal.’ In human life, eating and drinking are transformed into fellowship; sex into love; the herd into society. And inquisitiveness ‘has carried the human mind into the heart of the atom and along the flaming ramparts of the universe beyond the Milky Way’!”
― Sandie Lindsay

“Facts and rules are by themselves meaningless to capture what Heidegger calls significance or involvement; they must be assigned relevance. But the predicates that must be added to define relevance are just more meaningless facts. You can't capture it with a definition. And paradoxically, the more facts the computer is given—the harder it is to compute what is relevant to the current situation.”
― Hubert L. Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I