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Book cover for The Republic
moderns, was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth;
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“goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love [emphasis added].”
Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies

“Rather than wanting to be excellent—like the prideful—or to be honored for our worthiness—like the ambitious—in vainglory we seek only the “manifestation of excellence,” that is, we want more than anything to be well known and widely known.”
Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies

“If the ultimate measure by which society judges everything is its monetary or material value, then people who are no longer economically valuable are too easily seen as no longer valuable, period.”
Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies

Maimonides
“According to his opinion, man should only believe what he can grasp with his intellectual faculties, or perceive by his senses, or what he can accept on trustworthy authority. Beyond this nothing should be believed.”
Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed - Enhanced Version

Walter Brueggemann
“The task of prophetic imagination is to cut through the numbness, to penetrate the self-deception, so that the God of endings is confessed as Lord. Notice that I suggest for the prophet in a really numbed situation a quite elemental and modest task.”
Walter Brueggemann, Prophetic Imagination

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