Indian bishops slam terror attack on tourists in India’s Kashmir
“All Jewish short comings—tactlessness, political stupidity, inferiority complexes and money-grubbing—are characteristic of up-starts. There have always been Jews who did not think it worth while to change their humane attitude and their natural insight into reality for the narrowness of caste spirit or the essential unreality of financial transactions.” Hannah Arendt
“May, if life is sheer toil, a man Lift his eyes and say: so I too wish to be? Yes. As long as Kindness, The Pure, still stays with his heart, man Not unha-ppily measures himself Against the godhead.” Hoelderlin
“The undeniable loss of tradition in the modern world does not at all entail a loss of the past, for tradition and past are not the same, as the believers in tradition on one side and the believers in progress on the other would have us believe – whereby it makes little difference that the […]
“From the view-point of racism, there is no exterior, there are no people on the out-side… Racism never detects the particles of the other; it propagates waves of sameness until those who resist identification have been wiped out.” Deleuze and Guattari
“The first is unity in diversity. Uniformity is not Catholic, it is not Christian. Rather, unity in diversity. Catholic unity is different but it is one: this is curious! The cause of diversity is also the cause of unity: the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does two things: he creates unity in diversity. Unity does […]
“Unshakeable belief in a specific moral centre, which bestows meaning in world history on the Jewish people, transcends the sphere of pure secularization. I would not even deny that in it a remnant of theocratic hope also accompanies the re-entry into world history of the Jewish people that at the same time signifies the truly […]
“As such, the poem speaks; it speaks out; it speaks to. The meaning, the existential modes of art, music and literature are functional within the experience of our meeting with the other. Al1 aesthetics, all critical and hermeneutic discourse is an attempt to clarify the paradox and opaqueness of that meeting as well as its […]
“If one wishes to draw a line between the modern age and the world we have come to live in, he may well find it in the difference between a science which looks upon nature from a universal standpoint and thus acquires complete mastery over her, on the one hand, and a truly “universal” science, […]
No action taken against police who assaulted Catholic priests in India
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