“Jack Cohen (a science writer and reproductive biologist), defined mankind not so much as Homo Sapiens Sapiens, but as Pan Narrans – the story-telling ape.”
John Thompson and Joe Turlej Other People’s Wars
“Hasten slowly.”
Suetonius, quoted in Patrick Hughes and George Brecht, Vicious Circles and Infinity
In my latest National Post column I express the desire that Erin O’Toole base policy on principles and explain it in terms of them.
“A child is born into a world of phenomena, all equal in their power to enslave. It sniffs – it sucks – it strokes its eyes over the whole uncomfortable range. Suddenly one strikes. Why? Moments snap together like magnets, forging a chain of shackles. Why? I can trace them. I can even, with time, pull them apart again. But why at the start were they ever magnetized at all – just those particular moments of experience and no others – I don’t know. And nor does anyone else.”
The psychologist in Peter Shaffer’s play Equus, quoted by “Teller” (I believe my note to myself on this source means the author was Raymond Joseph Teller of “Penn and Teller”) in The Atlantic Monthly June 2001
“You have to have a lot of patience to learn patience.”
“Stanislaw Lec Polish writer (1909-66)” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail May 9, 2013
“Their art for art’s sake was a drunken variant of the stern age’s commerce for commerce’s sake, science for science’ sake.”
Garry Wills Chesterton (regarding the decadents of the 1880s and 1890s)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg’s Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinse Communist Party is Reshaping the World is a badly needed wakeup call, especially in Canada.