Something for Sunday Morning
"True discipleship hinders no one; on the contrary, it perfects everything; and
that which runs counter to the rightful vocation of any person is, you may be
sure, a mistaken devotion." St. Francis de Sales
Eric Scheske
Saturday
Mini-Review
Plato and Aristotle by Eric Voegelin (1957). Volume III of Order and History.
Choice quote: "Thanatos orients the soul toward the Good by relieving it from
the sickness of appearance; Eros is the positive desire for the Good."
Plato the mystic. Aristotle the scientist. Right? No. They
Friday
Mini-Review
The World of the Polis by Eric Voegelin (1957). Volume II of Order and History.
Choice quote: Homer "strove valiantly for the insight that ordering action is
action in conformance with the transcendent, divine order, while disruptive
action is a fall from the divine order into the specifically
Thursday
Mini-Review
Israel and Revelation by Eric Voegelin (1956). Volume I of Order and History.
Choice quote: "A Prophet can hear and communicate the word of God, but he is
neither a Philosopher or a Saint."
Josef Pieper writes thick and thin books: books that are short but packed.
Wednesday
Mini-Review
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953).
Choice quote: “'But I know something else you don't. There's dew on the grass in
the morning.' He suddenly couldn't remember if he had known this or not, and it
made him quite irritable.”
Everyone
Tuesday
Mini-Review
An Anthology by Josef Pieper (1981).
Choice quote: "The possibility of incurring guilt is the ultimate existential
threat for every person."
There are some authors who make you think, "I could just read this guy for the
rest of my life. He'd bring me
Something for Sunday Morning
"Never let us act like those who weep when consolation fails them, and only sing
when it has returned, resembling apes and baboons that are sad and furious when
the weather is gloomy and rainy, and never cease leaping and playing when the
weather is fair and serene."
Saturday
Nock Notions
"The decade 1887-97 was one of the most extraordinary periods in all the history
of America's fantastic civilization; even the period 1929-39 can do but little
more than match its bizarre eccentricities. . . . Free silver, the initiative,
referendum and recall; farmer-labourism, votes-for-women, popular election of
senators,
Funny Fallon
A chef from McDonald's just revealed the recipe to the Big Mac's secret sauce.
Even more surprising – he also revealed the McRib's secret meat.
Friday
BYCU
A few good drinking quotes:
"Conversation, hilarity and drink are connected in a profoundly human,
peculiarly intimate way." Kingsley Amis
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"While the village remained the social unit, strangers appeared seldom, and when
they did they were heavily outnumbered by your family, your friends, people you
had