“I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.”
Roberto Rossellini, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail July 7, 2004
“‘The center of every man’s existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.”
G.K. Chesterton, “Sir Walter Scott,” in Twelve Types, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #4 (1-2/05)
"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?"
Maurice Freehill, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com
“the remarkable way [Stanley] Hauerwas makes friends by arguing with people.”
Stephen H. Webb reviewing a Festschrift in Hauerwas' honor in First Things #160 (February 2006)
“Nearly all pessimism is insincere.”
G.K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #3 (Dec. 2000)
“It seems to be the great business of life to create wants as fast as they are satisfied."
Samuel Johnson Adventurer 119 quoted in a footnote to my edition of Samuel Johnson The History of Rasselas
"There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever."
"Viggo Mortensen (1958-), Danish-American actor" quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail September 14, 2011
"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."
"German proverb" quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com