#theo

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affair #less #love #love affair #more

I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#because #extraordinary #findings #hard #i

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#component #distinguishes #factor #genetic #grammar

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#ideas #much #obsessions #people #represents

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#better #far #know #league #level

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#life #life is a #like #lived #logical

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ↗

— Auguste Comte

#department #each #knowledge #metaphysical #passes

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aimed #another #boldly #effecting #ends

I have no useful theories about love and marriage. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#i #love #marriage #theories #useful

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#i #i think #last #more #our