Henry Fielding - Select Quotes
April 29, 2008
A man may go to Heaven with half the pains which it costs him to purchase Hell.
~ in Jonathan Wild
There are a set of religions, or rather moral writings, which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
~ in Tom Jones
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
April 28, 2008
Ben Stein has done the unthinkable. He has become an advocate of something that our academic institutions and the gatekeepers of accepted Science absolutely will not tolerate. He has advocated freedom of inquiry. How dare he suggest that PhDs in mathematics, physics, and genetics be allowed to question the dogma of the scientific elite? Doesn’t he know that Science is about unquestioning acceptance of the theories of our predecessors? Where would we be if Newton and Einstein had the audacity to question the accepted theories of their day?
Euripides - Select Quotes
April 27, 2008
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or any fire itself.
~ in Andromache
Man’s greatest tyrants are his wife and children.
~ in Oedipus
Escapism: Barack Obama vs. J.B. Phillips
April 27, 2008
The news media and internet have been abuzz with discussion of a statement made earlier this month by Senator Barack Obama. At a fundraiser on April 6 in San Francisco, Barack Obama said the following;
“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
John Donne - Select Quotes
April 26, 2008
Reason is our Soules left hand,
Faith is her right, …
Education - Select Quotes
April 26, 2008
On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated. “As much,” said he, “as the living are to the dead.”
~ Diogenes Laertius, in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Through Painted Deserts, - Donald Miller
April 25, 2008
Maybe it is a story of self-discovery. Maybe a story about friendship. Maybe it is an exaltation of general revelation or about learning to perceive God. Maybe it is about growing older, growing wiser, growing…
History - Select Quotes
April 25, 2008
History is philosophy teaching by example.
~ Dionysius of Halicarnassus
History, the evidence of time, the light of truth, the life of memory, the directress of life, the herald of antiquity, committed to immortality.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, in De Oratore
Rene Descartes
April 21, 2008
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations.
~ in Discourse On Method Read more
Revolution
April 21, 2008
Don’t waste your time on Revolution
Briefly, here are my problems with it. Read more
