Those who wish to proclaim the true Christ by word and example must expect to pay dearly for their profession of faith. —John A. Hardon, S.J., ed., The Treasury of Catholic Wisdom, 1987, Introduction, xvii.
The Christian way is not to make too much of attitude.
O Fountaine of Blandusia! thou dost shine,
More clear then glasse, worthy of sweetest wine;
—from Horace’s Fons Bandusiae: A Collection of Translations
There was no reply.
A glance at the elderly gentleman sitting on the other side of the table told me plainly what he had in his mind; but as he was a highly paid master in a highly respectable school, he forbore to give utterance.” (Agnes Repplier, Eight Decades, 1937), quoted
Collections of English Translations of the Odes (Updated):211 translations of Carpe Diem (Odes I.11) 238 translations of Integer Vitae (Odes I.22) 173 translations of Vitas Hinnuleo (Odes I.23) 159 translations of Aequam Memento (Odes II.3) 165 translations of Rectius Vives (Odes II.10) 173 translations … waisberg.micro.blog
I propose for consideration the possibility that for the future of Christianity, the Jews are more important than the Greeks or the Romans.
The Popperian Podcast #29 – Rafe Champion – ‘Jacques Barzun’
Collections of English Translations of the Odes (Updated):205 translations of Carpe Diem (Odes I.11) 232 translations of Integer Vitae (Odes I.22) 170 translations of Vitas Hinnuleo (Odes I.23) 158 translations of Aequam Memento (Odes II.3) 162 translations of Rectius Vives (Odes II.10) 169 translations … waisberg.micro.blog
New Collection of Translations:
New Collection of Translations:
Brightened my morning.
Oren Cahanovitc: The Ethnic Cleansing of Jews within Muslim Countries
Burckhardt on the uncertainty of events
One great advantage of studying cultural history is the certainty if its more important facts, compared with those of history in the ordinary sense of narrated events: these are frequently uncertain, controversial, colored, or, given the Greek talent for lying, entirely the invention of imagination or self-interest. Cultural history by contrast possesses a primary degree of certainty, as it consists for the most part of material conveyed in an unintentional, disinterested or even involuntary way by sources and monuments; they betray their secrets unconsciously and even, paradoxically, through fictitious elaborations, quite apart from the material details they may set out to record and glorify, and are thus doubly instructive for the cultural historian. —Jacob Burckhardt, *The Greeks and Greek Civilization, ed. Oswyn Murray, trans. Sheila Stern (1998), p. 5
Burckhardt: a personal possession of the past – in whatever shape or form
I have done everything I possibly could to lead them on to acquire personal possession of the past – in whatever shap or form. I wanted then to be capable of picking the fruits for themselves… I wanted to make every member of the audience feel and know that everyone may and must appropriate those aspects of the past that appeal to him personally, and that there can be happiness in so doing. —Burckhardt to Nietzsche
Martin Mosebach and Navid Kermani: “Of course religion is first and foremost a duty."
In religion, doubt is overrated.
