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“The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
― Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
― Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.”
― Happiness and Contemplation
― Happiness and Contemplation
“Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.”
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
“For the very first time in history, a purely secular State arose, which abandoned and set aside the divine guarantee and the divine ordering of the political sector, considering them a mythological world view, and it declared God himself to be a private affair, that did not play a role in public life or the formation of the popular will. The latter was seen now solely as a matter of reason, by which God did not appear to be clearly knowable; religion and faith in God belonged to the realm of feelings and not to that of reason. God and his will ceased to be relevant in public life.”
― Western Culture Today and Tomorrow: Addressing Fundamental Issues
― Western Culture Today and Tomorrow: Addressing Fundamental Issues
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