In my latest National Post column I say liberal reactions to actual diversity tend to be unfavourable, suggesting that their theoretical devotion to it simply confuses debate.
“Have they [the philosophers] found the cure for our ills? Is it curing man’s presumption to set him up as God’s equal?”
Blaise Pascal Pensées
"To the materialist things like nations, classes, civilizations must be more important than individuals, because the individuals live only seventy-odd years each and the group may last for centuries. But to the Christian, individuals are more important, for they live eternally; and races, civilizations and the like, are in comparison the creatures of a day."
C.S. Lewis “Man or Rabbit?” in The Grand Miracle
"The habit of contemplation, the ability to sit down in front of something and care enough to let it speak for itself, cannot be acquired soon enough."
Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb p. xiii.
In my latest National Post column I say the horrific mass killing of pedestrians in Toronto reminds us of the central role of moral choice in all our lives.
"Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."
Alphonse Karr, "French critic and novelist” quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail April 25, 2011
"an open mind is salutary, but one whose hinge is off?"
"H. Smith" [according to my detailed but now sadly incomprehensible note as to its origin]
"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."
G.K. Chesterton, Autobiography, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #7