"mathematical economics is what is called in criminal circles 'a racket.'"
Stephen Leacock "Through a Glass Darkly” in On the Front Line of Life
My National Post colleague Ashley Csanady hurls me centuries into the past for my view that men tend to be attracted to young women.
In my latest National Post column I ponder the mystery of Donald Trump's enduring appeal to people who should know better... and those who drive them to it.
"Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe."
Euripides, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail April 17, 2013.
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"The open mind is really a mark of foolishness, like an open mouth."
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Jim Hurlbert in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 # 7 (June 2004)
"people who think of the All, and only of the All, have, as far as I have seen, a tendency to become like the worshippers of a tadpole. They are worshipping something heartless, brainless, bodyless, something that is everything and nothing, something that has not the power of giving anyone that shock of reality which we can get from a woman’s face or a sting of pain. They do not love their god as monks love Christ; they do not fear him as savages fear Mumbo-Jumbo. And out of them comes that horrible universalism, that freezing and theoretic philanthropy which is the worst of the modern evils."
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News March 24, 1904, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #5 (March 2004)