#tempt

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#temptations #vices #without

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. ↗

— Balthus

#attempt #best #better #even #find

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#bedrock #blinded #could #discourage #faith

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#attempt #awkward #cradle #cure #every

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#break #coercion #dialectic #logic #means

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased. ↗

— Aeschines

#be strong #ceased #cherish #lawless #laws

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#been #deal #dealing #elements #entropy

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune." ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#bear #bitter #fortune #future #good

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#been #decline #fall #finite #first

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#beforehand #believe #catholic #committed #died