Brushstrokes on Philosophy and Doctrine
“Cor unum et anima una. The perfect union of a plurality of persons who, moved by charity, converge their wills (heart) and their intellects (soul toward one and the same end: Truth. It is the total harmony where different people think and love in absolute synergy, directed toward that which is Eternal.”
— E. S. von Hertwig, April 6, 2026
“Veritas est adaequatio rei et intellectus. It detines the correspondence theory of truth, where truth is the alignment between an object (reality) anc he understanding (mind).”
— E. S. von Hertwig, April 6, 2026
“The soul is the life-giving essence of the human being, and the intellect is its highest power; it is the faculty of the soul that allows man to read reality from within (intus-legere) and to unite himself with Truth.”
— E. S. von Hertwig, April 6, 2026
“The maxim ‘Nihil est in intellectu quod non sit prius in sensu’ consolidates the Peripatetic Axiom, the foundation of epistemological realism. Herein, however, any conflation with British empiricism or materialism is strictly rejected: the senses are merely the gateway. Knowledge attains its perfection — the apprehension of Truth (Veritas) — solely through the illuminating action of the Agent Intellect (Intellectus Agens), which abstracts the universal from matter, thereby simultaneously refuting rationalist innatism and empiricist reductionism.”
— E. S. von Hertwig, July 20, 2026
“Be bold enough to believe that God is on your side, even when you forget to be on His.”
— Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
“We must not adhere to a literal interpretation of the Bible so firmly that, if reason proves that interpretation to be false, we continue to uphold it.”
— St. Thomas Aquinas
“The Church does not accept everything, but she forgives everything; the world accepts everything, but it forgives nothing.”
— G. K. Chesterton
“Satan always tempts the pure. The rest are already his.”
— Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
“He alone truly believes who practices what he believes.”
— St. Basil the Great