Saturday, June 16, 2012

he who is the most audacious contemner of God is not infrequently the most startled at the loud clatter of a falling leaf. . . .

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passim . . . ut . . . quisque est audacissimus Dei contemptor, ita vel ad folii cadentis strepitum maxime perturbatur. . . .      John Cal...
Monday, June 11, 2012

"Sustained by the belief that a human type exists"

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"the insights [( personal knowledge)] by which we recognize life in individual plants and animals, and distinguish their several kinds...

"'there are some who exhaust themselves learning and investigating things that, once learned and investigated, do not matter in the slightest to the understanding or the memory.'"

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     Don Quixote, in Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote II.xxii (trans. Edith Grossman (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2003), 601...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

"When somebody has risked and failed, . . . when somebody has fallen from the tightrope they'd been walking on. . . ."

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"The crowd criticized him.  The crowd mocked him.  And I didn't want that to happen.  When somebody has risked and failed, and whe...

Holy Mother Quixote

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     "'I confess, judge, and accept everything that you believe, judge, and accept'".      The bachelor Señor Sansón Car...

"This hope is a clue to God. . . ."

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     "The stage on which we thus resume our full intellectual powers is borrowed from the Christian scheme of Fall and Redemption.  Fal...
Saturday, June 9, 2012

"We may firmly believe what we might conceivably doubt; and may hold to be true what might conceivably be false."

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     Michael Polanyi, Personal knowledge: towards a post-critical philosophy, pt. 3, chap. 10, sec. 5 ((London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,...