Boniface issued Unam sanctam , the most extreme assertion of papal power in all of church history. This time Boniface made his meaning unmistakable. “It is altogether necessary,” he declared, “for every human being to be subject to the Roman pontiff.” The king’s countermove was no less drastic. He prepared to have Boniface deposed on the ground that his election had been illegal.
We are merely travelers in time. We should understand that there is no border between who we are, and who we want to be.
(Bizler yalnızca zamanın içindeki yolcularız. Kim olduğumuz ile kim olmak istediğimiz arasında hiçbir sınır olmadığını anlamalıyız.)
When the materials supplied to our knowledge, having passed through the forms of space and of time, become objects laid out in space and time, then our understanding seizes them. And like our faculty of perception, the faculty of the understanding has its own nature, its own form. Our understanding, to speak like Kant, has its "categories". There are pure a priori concepts of the understanding as there are pure a priori forms of sensibility. Or, to speak more simply, our understanding is an understanding whose essential function is to unify things, to systematize. And it obtains this effect by making the objects it receives from space and time enter into certain frames aimed, precisely, at obtaining this unification. And these frames are the pure a priori concepts of our understanding, at the forefront of which we find the most important of them all, causality. By means of the causal relation, the understanding links up phenomena with other phenomena, objects with objects, and with this relation, and many others, the understanding ends up at an absolutely coherent and systematic unity of nature.