Ecclesiastes
Compared with the neat little nostrums of comfort-mongering minds who cross our t’s and dot our i’s, Ecclesiastes is as great, as deep, and as terrifying as the ocean. If this philosopher were alive today…
Category: Philosophy
Today’s One-Liner (#233)
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. —Ecclesiastes, 1: 14
A Father Schall Reading List
1) G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy 2) C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity 3) E. F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed 4) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov 5) Peter Kreeft, The Philosophy of Tolkien 6) Ralph McInerny, I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You 7) Dorothy Sayers, The Whimsical Christian 8) J….
Today’s One-Liner (#211)
Most universities today are so structured that they have no time for reading Aristotle or Aquinas. James V. Schall, Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught, 114
Today’s One-Liner (#202)
It is not in Montaigne but in myself that I find everything I see there. –Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer, #689
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Someone who knows Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Augustine, or Aquinas will never be too far from the truth, never out-of-date.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…