Bernard Lonergan Quotes

#1. Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.

Bernard Lonergan

#2. One cannot play fast and loose with what one knows to be true.

Bernard J.F. Lonergan

#3. No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

Bernard Lonergan

#4. There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

Max Planck

#5. In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

Bernard Lonergan

#6. Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

Bernard Lonergan

#7. To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.

Bernard J.F. Lonergan

#8. Be attentive, be intelligent, be responsible, be loving, and if necessary, change.

Bernard Lonergan

#9. The human mind was just bad at seeing things it did not expect to see, and a bit too eager to see what it expected to see. "Confirmation

Michael Lewis

#10. Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding,

Bernard Lonergan

#11. A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#12. Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Bernard Lonergan

#13. For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself.

Bernard Lonergan

#14. I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him

Carl Sagan

#15. He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

Marcus Aurelius

#16. Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

Philip Roth

#17. Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

Bernard Lonergan

#18. The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

Bernard Lonergan