“The general rule which we have now pretty well established among them is that in all experiences which can make them happier or better only the physical facts are ‘Real’ while the spiritual elements are ‘subjective’; in all experiences which can discourage or corrupt them the spiritual elements are the main reality and to ignore them is to be an escapist.”
C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters.
In my latest National Post column I say we should have seen chaos coming in Libya when we moved to oust Gadhafi.
“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”
Goethe, quoted on the flyleaf of Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy.
“Start every day with a smile and get it over with.”
W.C. Fields, quoted in the features on a DVD of six classic W.C. Fields shorts I acquired years ago
“Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action?”
Bruce Wayne in Batman (the 1966 movie)
“[D]o not men die fast enough, without destroying each other?"
Francois de Salignac, The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses
In the National Post I condemn Mark Zuckerberg’s clueless call for global censorship in response to ugly behaviour online.