December 2011
49 posts
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“A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far...”
– G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered, “Christmas”
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“You saw it, God. You saw it. The innocent child’s death, and my revenge. You...”
– Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring), Ingmar Bergman, 1960 (via thewaynorth)
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“See the smoke trembling under the roof as if with fright? Yet when it gets out...”
– The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), Ingmar Bergman, 1960
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“I’m very much a Luddite by choice. I grew up on a farm out in the middle...”
– Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson), interview, 12/9/11
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“The great fool is he in whom we cannot tell which is the conscious and which the...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, “The Great Dickens Characters”
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“Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have...”
– Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
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“Everything in our age has, when carefully examined, this fundamentally...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Heretics, ch. XIX, “Slum Novelists and the Slums”
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“Brother Sam believed light can keep darkness at bay. But I wonder if darkness is...”
– Dexter (season 6, episode 7, “Nebraska”)
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“Now, it is worthy of remark that [Thomism] is the only working philosophy. Of...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VIII: “The Sequel to St. Thomas”
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“Thus St. Thomas’ work has a constructive quality absent from almost all...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VIII: “The Sequel to St. Thomas”
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“Most modern philosophies are not philosophy but philosophic doubt; that is,...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VIII: “The Sequel to St. Thomas”
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“In other words, the object is an object; it can and does exist outside the mind,...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VIII: “The Sequel to St. Thomas”
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“If things deceive us, it is by being more real than they seem. As ends in...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VII: “The Permanent Philosophy”
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“The first flash of fact shows us a world of really strange things not merely...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VII: “The Permanent Philosophy”
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“In a word, the world does not explain itself, and cannot do so merely by...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VII: “The Permanent Philosophy”
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“The actual argument is rather technical; and concerns the fact that potentiality...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VII: “The Permanent Philosophy”
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“Existence exists; but it is not sufficiently self-existent; and would never...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VII: “The Permanent Philosophy”
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“Mr. Bernard Shaw said he had become an atheist because the universe had gone on...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VII: “The Permanent Philosophy”
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“But it rapidly became apparent that all sorts of things were Unknowable, which...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VII: “The Permanent Philosophy”
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“For ‘formal’ in Thomist language means actual, or possessing the...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VI: “The Approach to Thomism”
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“The Pragmatist sets out to be practical, but his practicality turns out to be...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VI: “The Approach to Thomism”
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“The truth about this false antithesis of induction and deduction is simply this;...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VI: “The Approach to Thomism”
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“To this question ‘Is there anything?’ St. Thomas begins by answering...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. VI: “The Approach to Thomism”
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“As a matter of fact, it is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. V: “The Real Life of St. Thomas”
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“Indeed, I think there are fewer people now alive who understand argument than...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. V: “The Real Life of St. Thomas”
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“That ‘God looked on all things and saw that they were good’ contains...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. IV: “A Meditation on the Manichees”
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“The old Manicheans taught that Satan originated the whole work of creation...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. IV: “A Meditation on the Manichees”
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“Any extreme of Catholic asceticism is a wise, or unwise, precaution against the...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. IV: “A Meditation on the Manichees”
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“In short, a real knowledge of mankind will tell anybody that Religion is a very...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. IV: “A Meditation on the Manichees”
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“It is a real case against conventional hagiography that it sometimes tends to...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. IV: “A Meditation on the Manichees”
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“If there is one phrase that stands before history as typical of Thomas Aquinas,...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. III: “The Aristotelian Revolution”
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“St. Thomas was willing to allow the one truth to be approached by two paths,...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. III: “The Aristotelian Revolution”
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“It is often cheerfully remarked that Christianity has failed, by which is meant...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. III: “The Aristotelian Revolution”
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“And unfortunately, nineteenth century scientists were just as ready to jump to...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. III: “The Aristotelian Revolution”
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“For instance, in the matter of the inspiration of Scripture, he fixed first on...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. III: “The Aristotelian Revolution”
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“For instance, in the matter of the inspiration of Scripture, he fixed first on...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. III: “The Aristotelian Revolution”
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“Hence the Greek element in Christian theology tended more and more to be a sort...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. III: “The Aristotelian Revolution”
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“But even the unlearned can see the difference, in the way in which Eastern...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. III: “The Aristotelian Revolution”
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“The Mystic is right in saying that the relation of God and Man is essentially a...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. III: “The Aristotelian Revolution”
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“And the man of science has always been much more of a magician than the priest;...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. III: “The Aristotelian Revolution”
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“Serious historians are abandoning the absurd notion that the mediaeval Church...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. III: “The Aristotelian Revolution”
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“That is what makes the riddle of the medieval age; that it was not one age but...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. II: “The Runaway Abbot”
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“The Crusaders wanted to recover the place where the body of Christ had been,...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. I: “On Two Friars”
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“The Franciscan was free to be a friar, instead of being bound to be a monk. But...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. I: “On Two Friars”
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“For instance, it was a very special idea of St. Thomas that Man is to be studied...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. I: “On Two Friars”
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“This is a point that is here very much to the point; that these men [Saint...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. I: “On Two Friars”
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“Yes; in spite of the contrasts that are as conspicuous and even comic as the...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. I: “On Two Friars”
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“The Saint is a medicine because he is an antidote. Indeed that is why the saint...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. I: “On Two Friars”
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“Every saint is a man before he is a saint; and a saint may be made of every sort...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, ch. I: “On Two Friars”