“There are some truths which do not have to be proven, but are needed for working out all the other truths.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn]
“In the old days, they founded nations (Moses, George Washington) or saved them (Nelson at Trafalgar). Because of their grand stature, they had grand flaws. The greater the man, the greater his perversity, says the Talmud (I translate loosely).”
Rick Salutin in Globe & Mail June 10, 2005 [on “heroes”].
“Deal with a thing while it is still nothing;/ Keep a thing in order before disorder sets in.”
Lao Tzu II.LXIV
“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