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Top 25 J. Budziszewski Quotes (2025 Update)

J. Budziszewski Quote: “Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.”

1. “Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.”

2. “There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.”

3. “Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there is a God, he is unknowable. But in that case, he is not entirely unknowable, for the agnostic certainly thinks that we can know one thing about him: That nothing else can be known about him.”

4. “To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there is a God, he is unknowable. But in that case, he is not entirely unknowable, for the agnostic certainly thinks that we can know one thing about him: That nothing else can be known about him.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.”

5. “To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “We may add that it is not an act of justice but of foolish injustice to pretend the sexes are the same. Justice is exercised in respectfully providing for the due needs of each.”

6. “We may add that it is not an act of justice but of foolish injustice to pretend the sexes are the same. Justice is exercised in respectfully providing for the due needs of each.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “I believe in civility. But it is not a requirement of civility to pretend there is no war.”

7. “I believe in civility. But it is not a requirement of civility to pretend there is no war.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable just because they are not part of ours. The principle of inference seems to be not Occam’s Razor but Occam’s Beard: “Multiply entities unnecessarily.”

8. “In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable just because they are not part of ours. The principle of inference seems to be not Occam’s Razor but Occam’s Beard: “Multiply entities unnecessarily.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “Pleasure comes naturally as a by-product of pursuing something else, like the good of another person, and the best way to ruin pleasure is to make it your goal.”

9. “Pleasure comes naturally as a by-product of pursuing something else, like the good of another person, and the best way to ruin pleasure is to make it your goal.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “To penetrate the unknown, the mind must begin with what is known already. George Orwell wrote that “We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” This book is an attempt at re-statement.”

10. “To penetrate the unknown, the mind must begin with what is known already. George Orwell wrote that “We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” This book is an attempt at re-statement.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “Only good was created. Every evil thing is a good thing ruined. There are no other ways to get an evil thing.”

11. “Only good was created. Every evil thing is a good thing ruined. There are no other ways to get an evil thing.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “In the same way, filling a cavity restores to the tooth its natural function of chewing. Healing does not transcend our nature; it respects it.”

12. “In the same way, filling a cavity restores to the tooth its natural function of chewing. Healing does not transcend our nature; it respects it.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “An unsound thinker goes where his motives and interests invite him; a sound thinker goes where the argument takes him.”

13. “An unsound thinker goes where his motives and interests invite him; a sound thinker goes where the argument takes him.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.”

14. “It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “What your body does is unrelated to your heart. Don’t believe it. The same survey reports that hooking up commonly takes place when both participants are drinking or drunk, and it’s not hard to guess the reason why: After a certain amount of this, you may need to get drunk to go through with it.”

15. “What your body does is unrelated to your heart. Don’t believe it. The same survey reports that hooking up commonly takes place when both participants are drinking or drunk, and it’s not hard to guess the reason why: After a certain amount of this, you may need to get drunk to go through with it.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “Even a liar’s speech expresses something true; it may not tell us the state of the world, but it tells us the state of his heart.”

16. “Even a liar’s speech expresses something true; it may not tell us the state of the world, but it tells us the state of his heart.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “Besides, morality is not about whether the human race survives, but about what kind of survival it gets. We marry; guppies don’t. We don’t eat our young; they do. Yet neither species is in danger of extinction.”

17. “Besides, morality is not about whether the human race survives, but about what kind of survival it gets. We marry; guppies don’t. We don’t eat our young; they do. Yet neither species is in danger of extinction.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two universals are in conflict: universal moral knowledge and universal desire to evade it. The first one we owe to our creation. The second we owe to our fall.”

18. “If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two universals are in conflict: universal moral knowledge and universal desire to evade it. The first one we owe to our creation. The second we owe to our fall.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. GEORGE ORWELL.”

19. “We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. GEORGE ORWELL.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “Yet our common moral knowledge is as real as arithmetic, and probably just as plain. Paradoxically, maddeningly, we appeal to it even to justify wrongdoing; rationalization is the homage paid by sin to guilty knowledge.”

20. “Yet our common moral knowledge is as real as arithmetic, and probably just as plain. Paradoxically, maddeningly, we appeal to it even to justify wrongdoing; rationalization is the homage paid by sin to guilty knowledge.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “To many people today, however, rights are something to protect us against the demands of morality.”

21. “To many people today, however, rights are something to protect us against the demands of morality.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.”

22. “When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “I mention this only because it seems to be a real obstacle for contemporary people. We don’t want the freedom of the creature but the freedom of the Creator – not freedom to be good but freedom to determine the good. Maybe this is not so new after all, for it was the first temptation: to be “like God, knowing good and evil”.”

23. “I mention this only because it seems to be a real obstacle for contemporary people. We don’t want the freedom of the creature but the freedom of the Creator – not freedom to be good but freedom to determine the good. Maybe this is not so new after all, for it was the first temptation: to be “like God, knowing good and evil”.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like mathematical abstractions, to the one who is addicted to other men’s wives.”

24. “The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like mathematical abstractions, to the one who is addicted to other men’s wives.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “If all meaning were relative, then the meanings of the terms in the proposition “All meaning is relative” would be relative. Therefore the proposition “All meaning is relative” destroys itself. It is nothing but an evasion of reality. That seems a high price to pay, even for the privilege of killing people.”

25. “If all meaning were relative, then the meanings of the terms in the proposition “All meaning is relative” would be relative. Therefore the proposition “All meaning is relative” destroys itself. It is nothing but an evasion of reality. That seems a high price to pay, even for the privilege of killing people.”

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J. Budziszewski Quote: “The problem was not that they failed to find these principles written upon their hearts, but that they could not bring themselves to attend closely to the inscription.”

26. “The problem was not that they failed to find these principles written upon their hearts, but that they could not bring themselves to attend closely to the inscription.”

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