"In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished" - Karl Rahner
This reminds me of C.S. Lewis' quote where he says that if we were created for the finite, then why does it feel so empty in our soul? Why does everything scream for an ending if there is no ending?
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"The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600)" by Jaroslav Pelikan
Simon Schama - Celebrity Historian
Thoughts about life, philosophy, mortality, eternity and the sorrows and joys of everyday life
Random Quotes
What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world -Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)
"I'm a friend who you have never met before." - Paula (Earthbound)
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." - Immanuel Kant
"the shadowy figures that look out at us from the tarnished mirror of history are - in the final analysis - ourselves." -Detlev J.K. Peukert
"I'm a friend who you have never met before." - Paula (Earthbound)
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." - Immanuel Kant
"the shadowy figures that look out at us from the tarnished mirror of history are - in the final analysis - ourselves." -Detlev J.K. Peukert
Book I Should Be Reading Right Now
"The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600)" by Jaroslav Pelikan
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