#pass

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#disclosure #divine #human #reason #salvation

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#does #moral #passions #perfection #regulates

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#disposition #mind #passion #simply #temperance

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#original #passion #proportionate #resistance #woman

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#disapprove #having #how #i #important

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#ego #egotism #endorse #give #identity

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#aside #biggest #else #music #passion

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

#design #due #excite #government #hearers

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

#assist #attainment #courted #difficulties #discouragements