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“He who for us is life itself descended here and endured our death and slew it by the abundance of his life. In a thunderous voice he called us to return to him, at that secret place where he came forth to us. First he came into the Virgin's womb where the human creation was married to him, so that mortal flesh should not for ever be mortal. Coming forth from thence 'as a bridegroom from his marriage bed, he bounded like a giant to run his course' (Ps 18:6). He did not delay, but ran crying out loud by his words, deeds, death, life, descent, and ascent—calling us to return to him. And he has gone from our sight that we should 'return to our heart' (Isa 46:8) and find him there. He went away and behold, here he is. He did not wish to remain long with us, yet he did not abandon us. He has gone to that place which he never left, 'for the world was made by him' (John 1:10); and he was in the world, and 'came into this world to save sinners' (1 Tim. 1:15). To him my soul is making confession, and 'he is healing it, because it was against him that it sinned' (Ps.40:5).”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“Philosophy does not profess to be a particularized science, with a place alongside other such sciences and a restricted domain of its own for investigation; it comes after the particular sciences and ranks above them, dealing in an ultimate fashion with their respective objects, inquiring into their connections and the relations of these connections, until finally it arrives at notions so simple that they defy analysis and so general that there is no limit to their application. So understood, philosophy will exist as long as there are men endowed with the ability and energy to push the inquiry of reason to its furthest limit. So understood, it is a living fact, and it has a history of more than two thousand years.”
― Désiré-Joseph Mercier, A Manual of Modern Scholastic Philosophy

“The actualization and formation of one uniform whole from the meanings of single words, which Ingarden calls, "the sentence forming operation", performed by a creative act of consciousness is not the same as the realization of an ideal quality, for example, during the creation of a real object. The carpenter does the latter, when he builds a table, for example, realizing in it such ideal qualities as 'square-ness', 'circularity', 'redness', etc. An intentional act cannot do this— Ingarden says, "it is beyond its powers". An intentional act can only create actualizations of ideal senses of ideas and form a new whole out of them, i.e., a new sense which is the meaning of the newly formed sentence. In this sense, a sentence cannot contain real contents of the ideas and ideal qualities, it can only point to the latter as the source of its meaning, whose actualizations, but not realizations it bears as a meaningful sentence.”
― Wojciech Chojna, Roman Ingarden's Philosophy of Literature: Phenomenological Account