“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.” MightTurnsPassionDifficultBeautyMoralFashionPeriodsElementsEternalEternityDifficultyDetermineRelativeQuantity Author:Jean-Luc Godard
“Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral absolutism and relativism... These are the basic problems of human existence, and as far as we possibly can we arrange things to forget them.” HumansArtPhilosophyProblemAgeEvilForgetExistenceMoralEternityUnityCreatorVarietyGood And EvilParadoxResolveVoidMechanismHuman ExistenceDeterminismRelativismAbsolutismMoral Absolutism Author:Frank Barron
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.” LawFallMoralOpinionWrittenEternityTablesMannersCreedsMoral LawRise And Fall Author:Lord Acton
“The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.” WorldLifeHeartLove IsMoralPowerGenerationsAchieveEventsEternalEternityBottomUniversityDrunkCosmosRemindersHeartbeatEternal LifeCalvaryGreat Events Author:Martin Luther
“A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.” MenHumansMadeLawTermNaturalMoralEternalEternityHarmonyInjusticeSaintCodeSquaresRootedUnjustNatural LawMoral LawUnjust LawsSaint Thomas Author:Martin Luther
“Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world” PeopleWorldEvilExistenceMoralFashionThis WorldCreaturesEternalEternityEntityMonstrousHideous Book:Juliette Source: Juliette
“History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.” LawFallVoiceMoralOpinionForeverWrittenCenturyMoralityEternityMannersCreedsTabletsMoral LawRise And Fall Book:Short studies on Greate Subjects Source: Short studies on Greate Subjects
“The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.” LoveLooksMeanStillsEnoughProblemAmericaHateCoursesSexMoralMarriageToo MuchHonorPromiseSolutionsEuropeEternityEnglandDivorceIndifferenceContractsMultiplePenaltiesAdulteryDeath PenaltySeriousnessReally MeanSeemingSerialsAurasPolygamyNew England Author:Anthony Burgess
“I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.” ActionForgetMoralAnxietyEternityContemplationAestheticSuggestingMoral Action Book:Theology's Strange Return Source: Theology's Strange Return