Saturday, April 22, 2017

Reno on the prospects for the university as we've known it

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"the vanguard institution of this new therapeutic culture [of self-realization]—the university—is in crisis, not churches and synagog...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Proletarier aller Lander vereinigt Euch!

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"Charles Marx, Squire of London"      The words with which Karl Marx "checked in" whenever he "took the cure at C...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

"every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy."

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"One cannot fail more seriously in the second of the two essential commandments.  And as to the first, I fail to observe that in a stil...
Sunday, April 9, 2017

"When one believes something to be true [simply] because God is Truth itself[,] . . . one begins to know in a way similar to the way God knows."

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" When one believes something to be true because God is Truth itself, one begins to know all the rest in virtue of one’s knowing God.  ...

"we do not merit it by our own works"

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"Through the Passion of your Only Begotten Son, O Lord, may our reconciliation with you be near at hand, so that, though we do not meri...

Creation straining

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"the reality infinitely outstrips the figure:  the lengthy germination of wheat and vine [(including, I would add, the fermentation ...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

"Whither, also, all we mortals wend our way, making of our funeral dirge the song: Alleluia."

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"Thou only art immortal, the creator and maker of mankind; and we are mortal, formed of the earth, and unto earth shall we return.  For...