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Christianity is essentially reality and not merely doctrine.

The beginning of philosophy is wonder.

To philosophize means to withdraw- not from the things of everyday life- but from the currently accepted meaning attached to them, or to question the value placed upon them.

The distinctive mark of a philosophical question is, then, that it brings out what constitutes the essence of spirit: convenire cum omni ente, in harmony with everything that is. One cannot ask a philosophical question or think philosophically without bringing the whole of being into play…

The power or capacity to relate oneself to ‘the’ world is spirit!

What do they not see, who see Him who sees all things?

When a thing contains its own end, or is an end in itself, it can never be made to serve as a means to any other end-just as no one can love someone “in order that.”

The proletarian is the man who is fettered to the process of work.

A state of extreme tension is more easily induced than a state of relaxation and ease although the latter is effortless.

The end and the norm of discipline is happiness.