There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.
The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road. . . A stone has no interests because it cannot suffer. The capacity for suffering and enjoyment is, however, not only necessary, but also sufficient for us to say that a being has interests - at an absolute minimum, an interest in not suffering. A mouse, for example, does have an interest in not being kicked along the road because it will suffer if it is.
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.
An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.
I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.
All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.
I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.
An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.
We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient.
Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.
There is no danger of exaggerating. We an never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.