Category: Philosophy

Today’s One-Liner (#200)

The boldest people are those who are rightly related to divine things. –Josef Piper, The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas: A Breviary of Philosophy from the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, #355

Today’s One-Liner (#198)

Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it. –Blaise Pascal, Pensées, translated by  A.J. Krailsheimer

Engrave with Gusto

On the other hand, having to learn from men by reading, teaching, contact, appreciate the sense of this golden rule inserted by St. Thomas in the middle of his Sixteen Precepts: “Do not consider from…

Today’s One-Liner (#156)

Someone who knows Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Augustine, or Aquinas will never be too far from the truth, never out-of-date. –James V. Schall, S.J., A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning 

Writing Daily

Often quoting Stendhal to the effect that one should “write every day, whether inspired or not,” Alain encouraged his students to sit down at a desk and write prolifically, as he did, at least two…

Today’s One-Liner (#139)

Salvador de Madariaga once said that our culture should give to each man and woman, when each reaches the age of voting, a sturdy, elegant book containing an account of the death of Socrates and…

Getting Free

Olga Katunal [was]  a political activist who eventually left the Communist party and returned to Judaism via German philosophy. …[She] made more radical choices when she abandoned Trotsky for Moses in the interwar years. –Judith…

Today’s One-Liner (#98)

Consider yourself fortunate if, in the midst of such a whirlwind, you possess a guiding intelligence within yourself. –Marcus Aurelius, in Pierre Hadot, The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius