Wisdom Quotes - Page 175

It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and through the entire scheme of laws and institutions to cause both public and individual well-being to develop spontaneously out of the very structure and administration of the state.

In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of know-how, technology and skill. The wealth of the industrialized nations is based much more on this kind of ownership than on natural resources.

Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way...A contemplative attitude is necessary: it is the feeling that you are moving along the good path of understanding and affection toward things and situations. Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God, and love of all things in God-this is the sign that you are on this right path.

Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.

Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

Tears are liquid love.

When a concept has been understood intellectually, if the learning is to be of value then a connection with personal feelings, inner knowing and experience has to be made, and consideration of how the information would best be applied.

Truth is multi-dimensional; it depends on the perspective you view from.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.

It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.