It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Jonathan Swift
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The Limits of Reason
Posted in Intelligence, Rhetoric, Thinking on October 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To “choose to live by bread alone”
Posted in Existence, Philosophy/Theology, Thinking on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Paradoxically, the elevation of political or economic things to the center of human attention – one of the great temptations of the contemporary religious mind – corrupts not only the higher things, but also economic and political things by causing us to expect something from them that they cannot yield. Many a poor man has [...]
Two Great Minds Think Alike
Posted in Imagination, Thinking, Writing on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
