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For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
Quote by -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
Quote by -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
Quote by -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
Quote by -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
Quote by -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Quote by -Saint Augustine
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Quote by -Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Quote by -Saint Augustine
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Quote by -Saint Augustine
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Quote by -Saint Augustine
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Quote by -Saint Augustine
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Quote by -Saint Augustine
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Quote by -Saint Augustine
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Quote by -Saint Augustine
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.
Quote by -Saint Augustine
It is scarcely a mark of intellectual profundity to have noticed that our society is big.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
No, I don't think I've ever really favoured English independence. My view is that if the Scots want to be independent then we should aim for the same thing.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something that large enterprises do and they become large by doing it.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
Environmental degradation has one cause above all others: the propensity of human beings to take the benefit and leave the costs to someone else, preferably someone far away in space or time, whose protests can be safely ignored.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to replace them.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
The rude, raw, 'let it all hang out' freedom of the Californian hippies was in fact the most censorious and oppressive of societies that I have encountered.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
My life divides into three parts. In the first I was wretched; in the second ill at ease; in the third hunting.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
A lot of the Qur'an is, frankly, cantankerous, vitriolic, man-hating stuff.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
One must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there's no way in which they alone can surmount the problems which they create.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
What the word conservative means is not putting things back but conserving them. There are things that are threatened and you love them, so you want to keep them.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the world more vividly and to greater effect than ordinary philosophical prose can because they don't just deal in ideas but show the emotional reality of them.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
When I say there is no such crime as date rape I am saying what is true. There isn't a specific legal category of date rape and I wanted to make that point in order to ensure that people don't use this to obscure the difference between real sexual violence and, you know, things that have gone wrong.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
There has been throughout this country and throughout Europe really an attempt silence the conservative voice. We get identified, caricatured and then demonised and made to look as though we are some kind of sinister, fascist, racist kind of people.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
Lives are destroyed by many things. They are destroyed by anti-racism too, as Ray Honeyford's was.
Quote by -Roger Scruton