Weekly Features Post

It's been awhile since I ran one of these. I can't promise you that it will resume as a weekly feature, but I'll do what I can.

For newer readers, the Weekly Features Post is just an amalgam of notes and quotes from my reading. There's no order to it. Just bits and pieces of things I find interesting.

Stoic's Porch
"Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams." Seneca

If This Blog Accomplishes Just a Little Bit of This, I'm Gratified

Much as the red squirrel retreats before the merciless gray squirrel, so the philosopher, lover of wisdom, has retired from the stricken field; today we know the conquering philodoxer, the lover of opinion or arid doctrine. The sage has succumbed to the ideologue or the “scientific” nihilist. Yet here or there endures a wise man of the stamp of Pascal or Samuel Johnson, abiding in a tradition, still employing the power of the Word to scourge the follies of the time.

Russell Kirk, Enemies of the Permanent Things (Sherwood Sugden), p. 98.

Strays
"The artist dreams no dreams. That is precisely what he does not do, as you very well know. Every dream is an obstruction to his work." Flannery O'Connor

"The easiest job I have ever tackled in this world is that of making money. It is, in fact, almost as easy as losing it. Almost, but not quite." H.L. Mencken.

"Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got." F. L. Lucas

"Endless money forms the sinews of war." Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." Emma Goldman

The Last Word
Kurdaitcha: an Australian word for a malignant supernatural being. “A kurdaitcha is the opposite of a eudemon.”