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Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the most simple, is always a minor miracle, since it can never be fully explained by the material instruments that we apply to it. In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the love that we receive there is always an element that surprises us.

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Pope Benedict XVI

Charity in Truth: Caritas in Veritate

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If you can sustain your interest in what you__e doing, you__e an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people__ professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they lose interest in the third act. You sort of get tired, and indifferent, and, sometimes, defensive. And you kind of lose your capacity for astonishment _ and that__ a great loss, because the world is a very astonishing place. What I feel fortunate about is that I__ still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that__ the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.