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“And so, being young and dipt in folly
I fell in love with melancholy”
― The Complete Stories and Poems
I fell in love with melancholy”
― The Complete Stories and Poems
“You have gone far wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free
play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you
than masturbation has to do with marriage.”
― The Great Divorce
play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you
than masturbation has to do with marriage.”
― The Great Divorce
“I don’t believe there is a person on the planet who doesn’t want to be loved. As a matter of fact, most people who are hard to love are the way they are because they have never experienced real love. They are dissatisfied and looking for something to fill the emptiness they feel, but often they don’t know what they are looking for, so they search for it in all the wrong places.”
― Loving People Who Are Hard to Love: Transforming Your World by Learning to Love Unconditionally
― Loving People Who Are Hard to Love: Transforming Your World by Learning to Love Unconditionally
“Serious historians are abandoning the absurd notion that the mediaeval Church persecuted all scientists as wizards. It is very nearly the opposite of the truth. The world sometimes persecuted them as wizards, and sometimes ran after them as wizards; the sort of pursuing that is the reverse of persecuting. The Church alone regarded them really and solely as scientists.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas
― St. Thomas Aquinas
“That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but *this* and I will take the consequences," little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.
Both processes begin even before death. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven; the bad man's past already conforms to his badness and is filled only with dreariness. And that is why, at the end of all things, when the sun rises here and the twilight turns to blackness down there, the Blessed will say "We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven," and the Lost, "We were always in Hell." And both will speak truely”
― The Great Divorce
Both processes begin even before death. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven; the bad man's past already conforms to his badness and is filled only with dreariness. And that is why, at the end of all things, when the sun rises here and the twilight turns to blackness down there, the Blessed will say "We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven," and the Lost, "We were always in Hell." And both will speak truely”
― The Great Divorce
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