He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' not by the help of mechanical instruments, but of the improved exercise of his faculties, and an intimate sympathy with Nature. The meanest thing is n...
Christian writers, whether they like it or not, do not simply write for themselves; for good or ill, readers will see their work as reflecting Jesus Christ and his church. And if only for this reason - though there are other reasons - one must take g...
Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases u...
I, therefore, for one, cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth-seeking, or wilfully agree to keep my willing nature out of the game. I cannot do so for this plain reason, that a rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me f...
You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes t...
On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to...
All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
Troja ist verfallen seit mehr als dreitausend Jahren. Homer lebt.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
All work is the avoidance of harder work.
Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
We should tend our freedom wisely.
Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
The student is to read history actively not passively.
