Christos Yannaras Quotes

Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode-a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.

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In the Church, bodily asceticism has always been the supreme road to
theological knowledge. It is not possible for man to come to know the truth of life, the truth of Godand the truth of his own existence purely through intellectual categories...

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In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire-in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation-that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for life-in-itself clothes itself in the sex drive-belongs to the particularity of being human.

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