Readiness Is All

Every time I re-read a book of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, or Aquinas, I shake my head and wonder why I had not seen that before. The answer is most likely that I was not ready…

Today’s One-Liner (#281)

Within the Christian tradition more than a suspicion exists that the more intelligent we are,  the more we consider ourselves to be “intellectuals,” the more difficult it is to save our souls.  –James V. Schall,…

Today’s One-Liner (#225)

What I call “another sort of learning” is the finding and reading those seminal books that take us to the truth and order of things.  ––James V. Schall, Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught

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