"Doubt comes at the window, when inquiry is denied at the door." Benjamin Jowett
"Man must bow down to something." Fyodor Dostoevsky, quoted in Philip Yancey Soul Survivor
The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Ask the Professor, March 11"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2017/March/Ask_Professor_83.mp3[/podcast]
"I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it." Widely attributed to Groucho Marx but in 1962 he denied saying it in real life on leaving a party; he may have used it in a comedy routine but it almost certainly did not originate with him
If you're wondering, yes, the digital elves did something weird to my National Post column today, inserting three paragraphs of a news sidebar as though they were part of my copy (grafs 4-6, from "The Liberal government plans to request..." down to "Read more..."). The online version is correct.
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour." Truman Capote, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Social Studies in Globe & Mail December 14, 2007
In my latest National Post column I ponder NDP MP Niki Ashton's contribution to the "revolt of the elites" against the elites on behalf of the elites.
"At the non-stop treason trial which is history, Kierkegaard stands convicted of working as an undercover agent for God." Malcolm Muggeridge A Third Testament (1976) in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge.