“If this physical world is all, then it is a closed hell in which we are confined like prisoners in chains, condemned to watch the other prisoners being slain.”
John Updike quoted in Huston Smith Why Religion Matters
“Drive slowly and enjoy the scenery – drive fast and join the scenery.”
Douglas Horton, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com/2014/01/gamblers-fools-and-egotists-59-still_31.html
The Climate Discussion Nexus has a new video, Part II in our “Why the Paris Accord is Doomed” series, explaining that, by the alarmists’ own models and assumptions, if everybody did meet their Paris Agreement targets it would make virtually no difference to global temperature a century from now. So they say Paris is all pain and no gain, and then wonder why governments around the world keep paying lip service to the agreement while taking no serious steps to comply with it.
“Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.”
Novalis, quoted in George Macdonald Lilith
“Trends that have held up over several hundred years are not apt to reverse themselves within the next several weeks.”
John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History
“The profit motive is not a noble motive. It is not a gallant motive. It is not artistic. It is not dignified. And yet, it seems useful.”
Henry Luce, quoted in Calgary Sun Jan 25, 1990
In my latest National Post column I say that acts of evil, including the mass shooting at two New Zealand mosques, result from deliberate cultivating of evil thoughts.