“Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.” ArtSaidDoneCertainEffortAttitudeOpinionGraceImpressionAccomplishedNonchalance Author:Baldassare Castiglione
“When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.” IfsMenGivingPersonsSaidRealYoungSpiritOughtContraryImpressionYoung ManBeing RealDepressingCheerfulTrumpetsNoisyTinBanging Book:Love at Second Sight Source: Love at Second Sight
“When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing with God; when it seeks Him no longer by meditation, images, impressions, nor by any other created ways, or representations of sense, but only by rising above them all, in the joyful communion with Him by faith and love, then it may be said to have found God of a truth, because it has truly lost itself as to all that is not God, and also as to its own self.” WayMaySaidSoulSelfSpiritualFoundLostNaturalMeditationTruth IsAnd LoveMethodImpressionRisingJoyfulRepresentationCommunionRise AboveFaith And Love Author:John of the Cross
“Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.” SaidDonePhilosophyOughtHistoricalAffairImpressionAcademicPremisesUnbiasedReconsideration Book:Natural Right and History Source: Natural Right and History