“Simplicity is not so simple as it looks.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The Return of the Gods” in The Resurrection of Rome quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6
“We live under the shadow of a gigantic question mark. Who are we? Where do we come from? Whither are we bound?”
Hendrick Van Loon The Story of Mankind (the beginning)
“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci according to izquotes.com/quote/leonardo-da-vinci/he-who-does-not-punish-evil-commands-it-to-be-done-275351
“let them choose rather to be corrected by the wise than to be lauded by the foolish.”
St. Augustine City of God
“An optimist is someone who thinks the future is uncertain.”
Anonymous, quoted as ”Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail March 28, 2000
“Unmaking the bomb (as I’ve written before) is like trying to un-eat the forbidden fruit. Leaving the Tree of Knowledge alone might have been a better choice, but it’s a bit too late for that. Pretending it never happened isn’t a useful idea. God had good reasons for his dietary restrictions in the Garden of Eden, arbitrary as they may have seemed to his critics, then and since.”
George Jonas in National Post August 8, 2015 (defending the use of nuclear weapons to end World War II; interestingly, Jonas was not a believer)
“One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.”
Paul Bourget “(1852-1935) French novelist and critic” quoted as “Thought du Jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail August 6, 2009
In my latest National Post column I say the bizarre life of the late fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld reflects the emptiness of postmodernism all too well.