“happiness is an end and pleasure can only be a means.”
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News April 27, 1912 quoted in “Chesterton’s Mail Bag” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #8 (July-August 2005)
“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather that it never had a beginning.”
John Henry Cardinal Newman, quoted in Paul Pearsall, The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need: Repress your anger, think negatively, be a good blamer, & throttle your inner child
In my latest National Post column I say efforts to “stimulate” the “economy” with public or private debt when the problem is a lot of people not out creating wealth because COVID-19 has them sick or quarantined shows the foolishness of conventional macroeconomics.
“No God, No Hope - Know God, Know Hope.”
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“I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do.”
G.K. Chesterton in a letter to his fiancée, in which he confesses to being covered in ink after a day’s work, quoted by David W. Fagerberg in First Things March 2000
“‘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)
“Why is it said that believing in the doctrines of the Church makes one a ‘conservative Catholic?’ It would be closer to the truth to say that it made one a Catholic.”
J. Budziszewski “Underground Thomist” email Feb. 25, 2019.