If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest fr...om them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they could not pay, he canceled the d...ebts for both of them. Now which of them will love him more?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic un...conscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life..., which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation bet...ween two people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and tur...n him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For 'truth' itself is a...n abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substance ... or a quality ... or a relation.... But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word 'true.' In vino, possibly, 'veritas,' but in a sober symposium 'verum.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It ev...en shares your humour. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; ...while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking, love has found. Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short to the spirits everything speaks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »