...our epidermal responses have to be changed in such a way that the fire and the fight doesn’t start almost immediately when we are “rubbed the wrong way.” Solitude and silence give us a place to begin the necessary changes, though they are not a place to stop...
Why are Fire Engines Red?
Whenever we delve into discussions on weighty matters of philosophy, science, and theology, we are best to define our terms, otherwise we might wind up committing fallacious equivocations as in the “Why are Fire Engines Red?” joke
C.S. Lewis: Good philosophy must exists, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
...Good philosophy must exists, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered...
Blaise Pascal – “Unless we love the truth, we cannot know it”
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn: “Ideology — that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification…”
Ideology — that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.
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