“Don’t trust the heart, it wants your blood.”
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quoted on www.memorablequotations.com/lec.htm (accessed December 30, 2003)
“It is a pleasant and consoling thought to think that our posterity will find sufficient entertainment in the contemplation of the enormous blunders that you are making at this moment. That will be a continuous source of laughter and joy to them.”
G.K. Chesterton in “Culture and the Coming Peril” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #5 (March-April 2005)
In my latest National Post column I celebrate Meghan Markle’s pregnancy as the sort of happy thing we need more of in the world, our lives and the newspapers.
“we [should] form the term catallaxy to describe the object of the science we generally call economics, which then, following Whately, itself ought to be called catallactics… I am convinced that its more general adoption might really contribute to the clarity of our discussion.”
Friedrich Hayek The Fatal Conceit [Whately is Church of Ireland Archbishop Richard Whately, who evidently made the suggestion in 1838]
“Nothing brings a better world into being than the stated truth. You’re going to have to pay a price for that, but that’s fine. You’re going to pay the price for every bloody thing you do and don’t do. You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you get to choose which poison you’re going to take. So if you’re going to stand up for something, stand up for your truth, it’ll shape you.”
Jordan Peterson, quoted by Tim Moen “MY Letter to Young Libertarians” in The Post Millennial September 4, 2018
“All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.”
G.K. Chesterton “Questions of Divorce” in Alvaro de Silva, ed., Brave New Family
“Refiners may weave as fine a web of reason as they please, but the experience of all times shows Religion to be the guardian of morals.”
Richard Henry Lee in a letter to James Madison, quoted in Forrest McDonald Novus Ordo Seclorum
“When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.”
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