“men dying in agonies to find a place [the North Pole] where no man can live – a place only interesting because it is supposed to be the meeting-place of some lines that do not exist.”
G.K. Chesterton in Heretics, quoted by Mary DeMarco in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #1 (September 2000) [about how we laugh at men who died looking for Christ’s tomb but celebrate those who died looking for the North Pole].
In my latest Loonie Politics column I cite the Bank of Canada’s inability to make a $20 bill featuring King Charles III in under five years as evidence that government in Canada is broken.
“The fact that I suppress what I know and pretend not to know it, even though I do know it, does not keep my buried knowledge from influencing my actions – but, since I suppress it, it distorts my thinking and influences my actions in a perverse way.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn
In my latest Epoch Times column, I condemn Ontario public-sector unions who support pro-Hamas protests, which is not merely a violation of their mandate but also a gross affront to their supposedly progressive values.
“It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.”
Joseph Conrad, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail Oct. 19, 1999
“If the policeman regulates drinking, why should he not regulate smoking, and then sleeping, and then speaking, and then breathing?”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News June 5, 1920, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #5 (May-June 2023)
“For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.”
“Larry Eisenberg (1919-), U.S. science-fiction writer” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail March 16, 2011
“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.”
Larry Winget, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html)