“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“a maddening knowledge that among fools in the land of Egypt I might claim high rank…”
Narrator Shan Greville in Sax Rohmer The Mask of Fu Manchu
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the task now for everyone is to find a constructive way forward, not to retreat further into sneering tribalism.
“To be wronged or robbed is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
Confucius quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Outside the crucifixion of Jesus, the most famous death scene in all history was the death of Socrates. Ten thousand centuries from now, men will still be reading and cherishing Plato's immortal description of it – one of the most moving and beautiful passages in all literature.”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the casual and inconsistent way governments keep shutting down our lives betrays their conceited conviction that we weren’t doing anything important anyway.
“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”
Robert Louis Stevenson quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“If belief in such [religious] truth declines in general, then that species of art can never flourish again which—like the Divine Comedy, the paintings of Raphael, the frescoes of Michelangelo, the Gothic cathedrals—presupposes not only a cosmic but a metaphysical significance in the objects of art. A moving tale will one day be told how there once existed such an art, such an artist’s faith.’”
Friedrich Nietzsche, “Human, All Too Human,” quoted by Edward T. Oakes in First Things March 2001