“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
Blaise Pascal
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
18JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“Either Christianity is true or it’s false. If you bet that it’s true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you’ve gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it’s false, you’ve lost nothing, but you’ve had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it’s false, you’ve lost nothing. But if you bet that it’s false, and it turns out to be true, you’ve lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.”
Blaise Pascal
17JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.”
James Burnham
16JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.”
James Burnham
15JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
Where there is no alternative there is no problem.
James Burnham
14JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies … the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.
James Burnham
13JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin, I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.”
James Joyce
12JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“But we are living in a skeptical, and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.”
James Joyce
11JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.”
James Joyce
10JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”
George S. Patton