Saturday, October 31, 2015

sana doctrina

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"Though, in the wake of the classical German philosophers, I am committed to a high estimate of rationality ( Vernunft ), I do not cons...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."

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      Hillary Clinton shaking hands with Shubhashish Mukherjee, Washington, D.C., 20 May 2004 . ...

religious, but only artificially so

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"There was once a time when the terms 'Christian,' 'atheist' and 'agnostic' meant something definite. If they a...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

"The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards."

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      Colonel Sir William Francis Butler, Charles George Gordon, English men of letters (London:  Macmillan & Co., 1889), 85 .
Saturday, October 10, 2015

"Collect, for grace"

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Mid 8th-century Gelasian sacramentary (no. 1576) : Gratias tibi agimus, domine, sanctae pater, omnipotens aeternae deus, qui nos transacto ...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

No love without judgment; no judgment more searing than that of love

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"Only that love which pronounces judgment on all that is not love is in the deepest sense a restoring and saving love.  At the same tim...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

"If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do."

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     Clive James in the Introduction to  Latest readings (Yale University Press, 2015), as quoted by John Banville in "A quest for cla...