June 2012
60 posts
W. W. Norton: Time Travel →
wwnorton:
Elizabeth would choose The Middle Ages when cathedrals grew like stalagmites out of hard ground, and rainbows coalesced to stained glass.
David would choose the 17th century. He’d whisper in the ear of Galileo about dark matter and space explorers; he’d tell him never mind The Church, …
“Individuals don’t transfer values from one generation to the next. Individuals...”
– Selfishness as Virtue - Benjamin E. Schwartz - The American Interest Magazine (via ayjay)
“The great minds of the Western tradition believed that real knowledge —...”
– Joseph Loconte, from “Academic Ideals” in StandPoint (via settledthingsstrange)
“When it comes to anything like a strain on the intellect as such, I think that...”
– G.K. Chesterton in All is Grist (via gkchestertonquote)
“Everybody ought to learn first a general view of the history of man, of the...”
– G.K. Chesterton in All is Grist (via gkchestertonquote)
“The image of a wood has appeared often enough in English verse. It has indeed...”
– Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante (via settledthingsstrange)
“It becomes both preposterous and perilous when we are dealing with the mere...”
– G.K. Chesterton in All is Grist (via gkchestertonquote)
“I had been interviewing her for the book I wrote about the Holocaust, and by the...”
– I followed Mr. Jacobs’ advice; you should too, all of you.
UC Berkeley Classics Department: 2009 Commencement Address by Daniel Mendelsohn. Please, please read the whole thing, if you have any interest in what makes the humanities human. (via ayjay)
“The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
Church Practices and Public Life: A Global Feast →
“Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things—trees and grass and...”
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Puddleglum, the Marsh-wiggle (via feltwellmusings)
To me, all you Narnians! For Narnia and the worlds ending!
(via cdnowak)
“Now, the nuisance of all this notion of Business Education, of a training for...”
– G.K. Chesterton in All is Grist (via gkchestertonquote)
“The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal...”
– G.K. Chesterton in All is Grist (via gkchestertonquote)
“There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being...”
– Oscar Wilde (via multicellular)
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The First Church of Marilynne Robinson →
The simple, unself-conscious beauty of these sentences are inseparable from, and equal to, the beauty they describe. The passage feels like an instinctual insight into a way of experiencing the world that is otherwise alien to me. I have read and loved a lot of literature about religion and religious experience—Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flannery O’Connor, the Bible—but it’s only with Robinson that I...
“Our cultural assumption is that freedom and personal fulfillment come only when...”
– R.R. Reno, reviewing D.B. Hart’s Beauty Will Save the World (via settledthingsstrange)
Eternal Revolution Blog: GK Chesterton on... →
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photo credit: Tim & Selena Middleton
This is another long post from Chesterton. This fragment was never published until it appeared in his biography by Masie Ward. However, it is relevant as it addresses the idea of “Christian Socialism,” and interesting as Ward…
“A subject that seems dead is just waiting for the right person to bring it to...”
– Go Big Or Don’t Go | Easily Distracted. This is part of Tim’s answer to Matt Yglesias’s dumbass question on Twitter, “Is there really a sound case for taxpayer-funded German language instruction?” Why not ask whether there’s a sound case for taxpayer-funded business departments? (Peter Thiel thinks...
“Opposition to the growth juggernaut has gathered pace in recent years. Growth,...”
– In Praise of Leisure - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via ayjay)
Settled Things Strange: Adage →
settledthingsstrange:
When it’s late at night and branches are banging against the windows, you might think that love is just a matter of leaping out of the frying pan of yourself into the fire of someone else, but it’s a little more complicated than that. It’s more like trading the two birds who might be hiding in…
