“When the knight came upon the dragon, did he estimate whether the dragon could be overcome in his lifetime? No. He stood up and fought.”
J. Budziszewski in “Underground Thomist” email Feb. 25, 2019
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
Henry David Thoreau, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com
“pessimist: a person who thinks everything is bad except himself.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The Flag of the World” in Orthodoxy, quoted in “Chesternitions” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 # 7 (June 2004)
“the present era, by and large since the end of the First World War, has returned to the practice and theory of radical hedonism.... We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.”
Erich Fromm To Have and To Be p. xxvii.
“That's what's important, to feel useful in this old world, to hit a lick against what's wrong, or to say a word for what's right even though you get walloped for saying that word. Now I may sound like a Bible beater yelling up a revival at a river crossing camp meeting, but that don't change the truth none. There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.”
Davy Crockett (John Wayne) in The Alamo (according to en.wikiquote.org)
“The sincere controversialist is above all things a good listener.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in an editorial in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2008).
“Pascal’s favourite philosopher, St. Augustine, put it this way in the most famous Christian line outside Scripture: ‘Thou hast made us for Thyself, and (therefore) our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee’ (Confessions I, i, 2). A shark cannot stop swimming and hunting and eating. It is a perpetual motion machine. If its proper food is not available, it will eat anything, even empty metal containers. St. Thomas says: ‘Man cannot live without joy. That is why it is necessary that a man deprived of spiritual joys goes over into carnal pleasures.’”
Peter Kreeft Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal’s Pensées Edited, Outlined & Explained
“You’re never too old to become younger.”
Mae West, quoted on www.goodreads.com