September 2009
31 posts
“My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“What is a puddle? A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless,...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“The intellectuals … were not even alive enough to fear death. They...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“If you want to please people who are mistaken, you can’t simply tell the...”
– Paul Graham
“I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong;...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Be who you are and be that well.”
– St. Francis de Sales
“Nothing can come but that which God wills. And I feel very sure that whatsoever...”
– St. Thomas More
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The little I suffer now seems, at times, much.
But what agony do I have that...”
– the opening stanza of Hasten, a poem I wrote in May 2009; it seems fitting for today, the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
– Albert Einstein
“…a man is never so much represented to the perspective of another as when he...”
– Roger Scruton, Sexual Desire
“In believing, we entrust ourselves to the knowledge acquired by other people....”
– John Paul II, Fides et Ratio
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded...”
– John Stuart Mill, The Contest in America
“A person is an objective entity, which as a definite subject has the closest...”
– Karol Wojtyla, Love and Responsibility
“Blushing is the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions. Monkeys...”
– Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and the Animals
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to...”
– Edmund Burke
“… the dignity of the human person is written over this period as its objective...”
– Dietrich von Hildebrand, The New Tower of Babel
“The way to true personality does not lead through the formation of a technique...”
– Dietrich von Hildebrand, Liturgy and Personality
“… the gift reveals, so to speak, a particular characteristic of personal...”
– John Paul II, The Theology of the Body
“…deductions have no power of persuasion. The heart is commonly reached, not...”
– John Henry Newman, The Tamworth Reading Room
“The person moves in the direction in which love calls him.”
– Karol Wojtyla, The Way to Christ
“All the members of human society stand in need of each other’s assistance, and...”
– Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments