“As the Chinese proverb says: Unless we change direction, we will likely end up where we are headed.”
Diane Francis in Maclean’s March 21, 1994
“We say we must ‘forgive ourselves’ - but no one can really forgive himself, because he is not the one who is principally concerned by his wrongdoing. Instead one should confess wrong and seek forgiveness from that person – and from God.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn]
“There is more than one kind of intelligence, and I am a fool if I dismiss the kinds I don’t have as unintelligent.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn]
In my latest Epoch Times column I say chronic overuse of pharmaceuticals, including on kids, proves that our modern materialistic approach to human fulfilment has failed not that it has succeeded.
“the ardent haste of the Midnight People, who drink and dance and rattle and are ever afraid to be silent...”
Sinclair Lewis Babbitt
“Think! Thought is man’s prerogative.”
Nayland Smith to narrator Shan Greville, about to do something rash, in Sax Rohmer The Mask of Fu Manchu
“Sins are not ‘mistakes.’ Mistakes are things we didn’t mean to do.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn]
“’Earl looks like he’s deep in thought. Is that right? Are you deep in thought, dear?’ ‘Huh? Oh, I was just thinking about those little red things in fruitcakes and wondering what the heck they’re made of.’ ‘No, apparently he’s shallow in thought, as usual.’”
Opal (mostly to a friend) and Earl in “Pickles” cartoon in Ottawa Citizen December 18, 2004