February 2012
28 posts
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“We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings, “Preface to the 1957 Edition”
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“Each man has his own reason to die. But if they go on, I will go on. It is...”
– Robert E. Lee in Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels, p. 339 (By the way, I can’t help but think how different the humility in this quote is from the pride and arrogance of modern American war.)
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“It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it.”
– Robert E. Lee
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“One of the greatest evidences of the inspiration of the Scriptures is seen in...”
– Gordon Ferguson
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“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays
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“[God] has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, “Divine Goodness”
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“I say y’all, ain’t, reckon, and afta’while. I hunt, I fish, I wear boots, I wear...”
– Excerpt from A Gentleman’s Journal blog
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“The truth is that what we call Capitalism ought to be called Proletarianism. The...”
– G.K. Chesterton, The Outline of Sanity, “The Beginning of the Quarrel”
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“Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he...”
– G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered, “Wine When it is Red”
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“‘Are the gods not just?’ ‘Oh no, child. What would become of...”
– C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
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“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain,...”
– C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
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“I have seen landscapes…which, under a particular light, made me feel that...”
– C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays, “On Stories”
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“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This...”
– C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, “Faith”
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“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “Answers to Questions on Christianity”
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“This is, I think, one little part of what Christ mean by saying that a thing...”
– C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, “Christian Marriage”
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“We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (via intracoastal-wanderings)
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex…It takes a...”
– E.F. Schumacher, The Radical Humanist, Volume 37, “Small is Beautiful”
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“An income tax would be wholly unnecessary if Congress restrained itself and...”
– Ron Paul, LewRockwell.com, “Are Your Taxes Too Low?”
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“What a wonder is your Mother! The Lord entered her, and became a Servant; the...”
– St Ephraem the Syrian
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“Two centuries ago, our forebears would have known the precise history and origin...”
– Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, p. 35
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“Within this Christian vision for marriage, here’s what it means to fall in love....”
– Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage, “The Mission of Marriage”
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“If we are to save the oppressed, we must have two apparently antagonistic...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, ”On the Alleged Optimism of Dickens”
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“The only true voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in...”
– Marcel Proust, La Prisonnière, chapter II
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“For knowledge comes slowly, and when it comes, it is often at great personal...”
– Paul Auster, Ghosts
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“But the present is no less dark than the past, and its mystery is equal to...”
– Paul Auster, Ghosts
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“It is the great paradox of the modern world that at the very time when the world...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, August 8, 1925
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“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely...”
– C.S. Lewis, On Stories: and Other Essays on Literature, “On Three Ways of Writing for Children”
January 2012
76 posts
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“What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when...”
– Burton Rascoe
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“But there are two ways in which a controversy can cease: by being settled, or by...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “The Church’s Liturgy, Invocation, and Invocation of Saints”
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“I have often told ‘highbrow’ converts that a humble acquiescence in...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “Correspondence with an Anglican Who Dislikes Hymns”
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“A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’”
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“It is part of the nature of a strong erotic passion — as distinct form a...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’”
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“And if you protest against this view you are usually met with chatter about the...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’”
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“When I was [young], all the progressive people were saying, ‘Why all this...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’”
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“In words that are cherished by all civilized men, but especially by Americans,...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’”
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“I hold this conception [that behind the laws of the state there is a Natural or...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’”
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“I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “Is Progress Possible?”
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“Again, the new oligarchy must more and more base its claim to plan us on its...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “Is Progress Possible?”
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“Observe how the ‘humane’ attitude to crime could operate. If crimes...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “Is Progress Possible?”
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“On the old view public opinion might protect against a punishment (it protested...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “Is Progress Possible?”
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“I therefore go even further than C.P. Snow in removing the H-bomb from the...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “Is Progress Possible?”
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“Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. ...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “Is Progress Possible?”
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“Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “Is Progress Possible?”
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“Revolutions seldom cure the evil against which they are directed; they always...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “Delinquents in the Snow”
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“When the State cannot or will not protect, ‘nature’ is come again...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “Delinquents in the Snow”
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“But the Humanitarian theory wants simply to abolish Justice and substitute Mercy...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment”
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“The practical problem of Christian politics is not that of drawing up schemes...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment”
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“It is, indeed, important to notice that my argument so far supposes no evil...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment”
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“The first result of the Humanitarian theory is, therefore, to substitute for a...”
– C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment”