“A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.”
Cyril Connolly, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail August 7, 2009
“Hot weather is a classic example of being able to manufacture a problem that, in a very real sense, one may choose not to make a problem simply by ignoring it.”
Charles Murray in National Review March 30, 1992
“‘It’s impossible to know anything about God.’ You would have to know a great deal about God in order to know that you couldn’t know anything about God (I mean anything else about Him). At the least you would have to know either that He doesn’t exist, that even if He exists He doesn’t care whether you know about Him, or that even if He cares He is incompetent to tell us anything about Himself.”
J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" email “Reading an Empty Book” March 24, 2019
“I do so love fireworks. They are so unnecessary.”
John Gielgud, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things #153 (May 2005)
“Vance… sat regarding Pfyfe drearily as if seeking to find some excuse for his existence, but utterly unable to do so.”
S.S. Van Dine The Benson Murder Case
“If there’s no solution, there’s no problem.”
James Burnham, quoted in Chronicles magazine August 1993 (as a habitual saying of his)
“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down to the green valleys of silliness.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail January 19, 2009
“Nobody really cares if you're miserable so you might as well be happy.”
Cynthia Nelms, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail July 24, 2009