“Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling, and inexperienced in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite.” – Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France; qtd. in Raymond Williams, Culture and Society
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From “Reflections on the Revolution in France”
November 20, 2011
Another one from “Les Miserables”
October 26, 2011
“Scepticism, that dry-rot of intellect, had left him without a whole thought in his head. He lived in irony, and his motto was, ‘The only certainty is a full glass.’” – Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Three Quotes
September 27, 2011
“The hardest thing in the world is to be where we are.” – Rowan Williams, Christ on Trial: How the Gospel Unsettles Our Judgment “Abstraction is the enemy wherever it is found.” – Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community “It is a trick of the devil, which he employs to deceive good [...]
From “Watership Down”
July 18, 2011
“When Marco Polo came at last to Cathay, seven hundred years ago, did he not feel — and did his heart not falter as he realized — that this great and splendid capital of an empire had had its being all the years of his life and far longer, and that he had been ignorant [...]
From “Aids to Reflection” (1825)
July 15, 2011
“Resist every false doctrine: and call no man heretic. The false doctrine does not necessarily make the man a heretic; but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.” – S.T. Coleridge
From “Letter to Robert Southey” (October 1795)
June 5, 2011
“Domestic happiness is the greatest of things sublunary, and of things celestial it is impossible, perhaps, for unassisted man to believe anything greater; but it is not strange that those things, which, in a pure form of society, will constitute our first blessings, should in its present morbid state be our most perilous temptations. ‘He [...]
