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Christianity for Modern Pagans

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“We think we want peace and silence, and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us, like a dark and empty room without distractions where we would be forced to confront ourselves, the one person we fear the most.”

— Peter Kreeft, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Philosophy

“War is an attempt to solve some people's problems by killing other people. It is an attempt to destroy evil by doing evil. Thus all wars are lost. War is the attempt to make one evil into zero evils, but it makes one evil into two evils.”

— Peter Kreeft, amazon.com

Tagged: Violence, War

“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it; in other words we would never travel by sea if it meant never talking about it, and for the sheer pleasure of seeing things we could never hope to describe to others.”

— Pascal, amazon.com

Tagged: travel, Philosophy

“Only a snob is funny tripping on a banana peel, not a humble saint.”

— Peter Kreeft, amazon.com

Tagged: Philosophy, Media

“One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.”

— Pascal, amazon.com

Tagged: Philosophy