“Religion may very well be an illusion, as Freud said, but then man himself is that illusion.”
William Barrett The Illusion of Technique
“Pope [a minor-league thug]: 'My superior wants to see you.' Jonathan Hemlock [played by Clint Eastwood]: 'Well, that doesn't limit the field much!'”
The Eiger Sanction, quoted on The Internet Movie Database (imdb.com)
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"St. Augustine, asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, replied, 'I would go on working in my garden.'"
Florence King in National Review May 1, 1995 p. 92.
"It is an unfortunate habit of publicly repenting for other people’s sins."
G.K. Chesterton, “The Midnight of Europe,” in The Crimes of England, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #2 (October-November 2003)
In my latest National Post column I ponder the upside-down modern world in which we seek an artificial sense of meaning to help us stay unconscious.