Dietrich Von Hildebrand Quotes

#1. puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We

Daniel Kahneman

#2. He didn't say anything, he barely even breathed. I wanted to kiss him, but I had to laugh. He was a sophomore, and all he really cared about was his guitar. He took a bong hoot every half-hour. I think he might've been in love with me, but I didn't love him back.

Raziel Reid

#3. Happiness is love's outcome, never its motive. Where someone is loved he is an end in himself and certainly not a means toward something else. It is therefore of love's essence, wherever it is found, that the loved one seem precious, beautiful, and worthy of love.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#4. All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights.

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

Robert Barany

#6. The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

Frank Herbert

#7. I'm convinced that anyone who doesn't like Mexican food is a psychopath.

Jim Gaffigan

#8. That is the difference between St. Jude's and all other children's hospitals. The other hospitals are not bad at all; they're good hospitals, but they're just working with what they know, and St. Jude's is working with what nobody else knows, because they're doing research.

Marlo Thomas

#9. As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.

Robin Sharma

#10. The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#11. Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#12. For, just as love embodies the life of all virtues and expresses the inmost substance of all holiness, humility is the precondition and basic presupposition for the genuineness, the beauty, and the truth of all virtue.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#13. The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we cannot even be wholly ourselves - in the sense of individuality as a unique divine thought - until we are reborn in Christ.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#14. Humility involves the full knowledge of our status as creatures, a clear consciousness of having received everything we have from God.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#15. Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#16. These people will never understand him! He'll be famous - a legend - I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in the future - there will be books written about Harry - every child in our world will know his name!

J.K. Rowling

#17. I love you Aurora Eden you are so unpredictably predictable!

Lyn Gardner

#18. I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.

Alice Oswald

#19. There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#20. And it's almost too perfect. Almost too Disney.

Becky Albertalli

#21. Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#22. Love is not concerned with a person's accomplishments, it is a response to a person's being: This is why a typical word of love is to say: I love you, because you are as you are.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#23. Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the total and mutual gift of self.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#24. Oh,you love it," I said. "Do you think you love Ames, Roux?"
"I don't think it," she replied as her eyes fluttered shut. "I know it."
"I guess it is that easy." I said to Jesse. "You just know. There's not a lot of explanation.

Robin Benway

#25. Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squattercamp.

Matsime Simon Mohapi

#26. One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ ... than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#27. It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association

William James