On Opus Operatum

"This means that the church is a sign of salvation, and is not simply salvation itself. But insofar as the church is the continuation of God's self-offer in Jesus Christ in whom he has the final, victorious and salvific word in the dialogue between God and the world, the church is an efficacious sign." 

- Karl Rahner, Foundations of Christian Faith

On Calvin On St. Augustine On Romans 3:21

Calvin on St. Augustine on Rom 3:21 

"It is not unknown to me, that Augustine gives a different explanation; for he thinks that the righteousness of God is the grace of regeneration; and this grace he allows to be free, because God renews us, when unworthy, by his Spirit; and from this he excludes the works of the law, that is, those works, by which men of themselves endeavor, without renovation, to render God indebted to them."

 - John Calvin, Commentary on Romans

On Linguistic Puzzles

"I have a telephone conversation with New York. My friend tells me that his young trees have buds of such and such a kind. I am now convinced that his tree is... Am I also convinced that the earth exists?" 

- Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty

On Freud's Methodology

"However, psychoanalysis is not just a school that flourished and faded. It is widely regarded as the paradigm of bad science, a theory so obviously false that it's proponents must be deluded or devious or both." 

- Patricia Kitcher, Freud's Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of Mind

On The Baconian Method

On Bacon's Project:

"... after the brilliant, often witty, and always challenging Bk I, Bk II proves to be a rather pretentious, even half-baked collection of veiled theories, Hermetic innuendos, Scholastic distinctions, and labels. Had only Bk II survived, more than one Ph.D dissertation would have been needed to est precisely what the Baconian method was."

 - Daniel Robinson, An Intellectual History of Psychology

On Truth And The Church

"Without truth, it is easy to fall into an empiricist and sceptical view of life, incapable of rising to the level of praxis because of a lack of interest in grasping the values — sometimes even the meanings — with which to judge and direct it. Fidelity to man requires fidelity to the truth, which alone is the guarantee of freedom (cf. Jn 8:32) and of the possibility of integral human development. For this reason the Church searches for truth, proclaims it tirelessly and recognizes it wherever it is manifested."

- Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in veritate, 2009"

On Phenomenology And The Re-Return

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time

- T.S. Eliot