“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.”
Sydney Harris, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail October 8, 2004
“Concentration is a narrowing down of the mind – but we are concerned with the total process of living, and to concentrate exclusively on any particular aspect of life, belittles life. A concentrated mind is not an attentive mind, but a mind that is in the state of awareness can concentrate. Awareness is never exclusive, it includes everything. One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.”
Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts
“What I’ve been drawing attention to is the ‘anti-Zionist’ antisemitism that has been central to the various theses and propositions of the contemporary ‘progressive’ project. It is not evil because it is antisemitic. It is antisemitic because it is evil.”
Terry Glavin on Substack Feb. 2, 2024 [https://therealstory.substack.com/p/through-the-darkness-some-light-is].
“It left me speechful.”
Me Jan. 1 2024 when someone on an Antiques Road Show clip on YouTube said a valuation of a painting left him speechless which I almost never am.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say Canada has a pressing problem with letting jihadis into the country… and it’s that those in charge don’t see any problem with it.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I take issue with cancelling historical figures including famous villains and people you never heard of.
“Although the terms ‘skepticism’ and ‘relativism’ are usually used interchangeably, skepticism is in a sense the exact opposite of relativism, for skepticism says that no one has the truth, while relativism says that everyone has it, for truth is only ‘my truth’ or ‘your truth.’ Skepticism denies truth; relativism denies error.”
Dale Ahlquist reviewing a new edition of Peter Kreeft’s Socrates’ Children, an introduction to what Kreeft considers the 100 most important philosophers ever, in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #5 (May-June 2023)
“This book appears as the world lumberingly and indecisively turns back from the abysses which we were lucky to escape, and which still yawn. Its theme is that the main responsibility for the century’s disasters lies not so much in the problems as in the solutions, not in impersonal forces but in human beings, thinking certain thoughts and as a result performing certain actions.”
Start of “Preface” in Robert Conquest Reflections on a Ravaged Century