“When the tide is receding from the beach it is easy to have the illusion that one can empty the ocean by removing water with a pail.”
Rene Dubos, quoted in Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emergent Diseases in a World out of Balance
“It is one of the deep jokes of existence that very wise people and very ignorant people frequently say the same thing; perhaps it is the basis of democracy.”
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News Feb. 23, 1907, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 2 (Nov.-Dec. 2022)
In my latest Epoch Times column I started by asking why the new British cabinet was so small and ended up explaining why it was so large.
“Rachel, you’re a long way from desperate.” “I may not be there but I’m on the bus.”
An exchange on a short-lived sitcom called “Flesh ‘n’ Blood” that I apparently watched on Oct. 11, 1991 for reasons I could not possibly now begin to explain.
“During the 19th century, and through much of the early 20th, Hamlet was regarded as Shakespeare’s central and most significant play, because it dramatized a central preoccupation of the age of Romanticism: the conflict of consciousness and action; the sense of consciousness as a withdrawal from action which could make for futility, and yet was all that could prevent action from becoming totally mindless.”
Northrop Frye Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
“There are no bad things, only bad uses of things.”
G.K. Chesterton “in his book on St. Thomas Aquinas” quoted by Gabriel Ahlquist in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 6 (July-August 2023) [but in defence of AI which I suspect may test that rule severely]
“Ottawa goes tame”
One of mine from May 20, 2007 re the Senators reaching the Stanley Cup final.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say that a Democratic party that deceived us and itself for years about Biden’s senility is unfit to govern, while mainstream media that participated in the deceit are unfit to report.