If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. – Thomas Merton
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. – Thomas Merton
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. – James Buchan