Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.


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JOSEPH BRODSKY
I remember on one of my many visits with JOSEPH LEWIS I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your ow...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling wh...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
JOSEPH BARTH
It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.
JOSEPH FOUCHE
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The g...
JOSEPH SUGARMAN
Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
An old Apache storyteller reminds us:

JOSEPH CAMPBELL
We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark...
JOSEPH FARRELL
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to...
JOSEPH CANNON
We always plan too much and always think too little.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and temp...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
JOSEPH ROUX
Perfection is the child of time.
JOSEPH HALL
Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
JOSEPH ROUX
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Wit...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; ea...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Legislation, both statutory and constitutional, is enacted, it is true, from an experience of evils ...
JOSEPH MCKENNA
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of ...
JOSEPH FARRELL
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its fou...
JOSEPH FARRELL
People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeki...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
JOSEPH HELLER
Follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out in...
JOSEPH CONRAD