Tuesday
Random Quotes
"The mind has functions that the brain hardly knows." John Lukacs
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"While it is easier to wrestle with a weak body than with a strong one, it is more difficult to wrestle with a weak mind than with a strong one." John Lukacs
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"Whereas the idea of equality is rooted in the strength of the superpersonal idea of justice, the demand for uniformity is rooted in the meanness of the personal sting of envy." Owen Barfield
(I bought Barfield's Poetic Diction years ago, convinced that it contained novel but important insights that a person can't find in other writings, whether of the Inklings or others. Alas, I couldn't get through it. Some day. Always some day.)
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"We are in a downward, reciprocally causative spin: because our work is disordered, there is no time to pray, and because there is no time to pray our work grows worse." John Senior
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"Myth articulates an experience with transcendence." Michael Federici, on the thought of Eric voegelin. TDE commentary: That's a crucial truth to remember. The next time you hear someone dismiss a story as mere myth, he's ignorant (or at least has an inadequate understanding of what "myth" means).
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"There can be no greater impropriety than questioning the quality of another person's religious faith." Joseph Epstein.
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"Never listen to a leftist who does not give away his fortune or does not live the exact lifestyle he wants others to follow." Nassim Taleb
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"You cannot possibly trust someone on a treadmill." Nassim Taleb
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"[T]he whole of human existence is suffused with mysteries." Russell Kirk, The Sword of Imagination.
