#1393 The modern world will not be punished. It is the punishment. —Nicolás Gómez Dávila archive.org/details/N…
Marlene A. Condon in Defense of Nature, Nativist Methodology Reveals Dearth of Supporting Evidence for “Invasive”-plant Ideology
We ask God not to lead us into temptation because often enough it is where we want to go.
A university has a wealth of knowledge because students enter as freshman knowing everything and leave as seniors knowing nothing. —Columbia University professor, 1968
The recent Supreme Court decisions seem to to be based more than previously on the written Constitution.
When we look into the apocryphal gospels, we find ourselves constantly saying of this or that logion, ‘No. It’s a fine saying, but not his. —C. S. Lewis, Fern-Seed and Elephants
Nobody talks like him. Sc. 56
There is no such thing as modern art; there is only one kind of art and it is everlasting! —Egon Schiele
You are not a category.
Banning racial preferences doesn’t ban consideration of an individual’s racial experiences.
As all parties agree, nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise. [Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College] (https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23864004/students-for-fair-admissions-inc-v-president-and-fellows-of-harvard-college.pdf)
Two cities have been formed by two loves. City of God, Book XIV, Chapter 28
For St. Augustine, love is not love.
True reform comes slowly; and no race was ever freed except by its own efforts, – no man saved except through himself. —John Jay Chapman, “The Negro Question”, ca. 1914
From Lionel Trilling, "Mind in the Modern World"
At the present time the number of trained academic women is perhaps large enough to support the frequently expressed belief that no lowering of academic standards can result from the requirement that women be proportionately represented on faculties. Doubtless it will eventually be possible to say the same thing of the disadvantaged groups, the sooner the better. When that time comes, the anomaly of prescribed social or sexual representation in the life of the mind will perhaps seem necessary to no one. Lionel Trilling, The 1972 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
I’m told this will be used again.
He banishes devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils. Sc. 38, Matthew 9:34, Mark 3:22, Luke 11:18
What, then, is the sin of calling Beelzebub the Holy Spirit?