Where I collect favorite texts from my reading.
Alphabetical by title. I’m constantly adding to it.
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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.”
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“An explained thing…is almost inevitably explained away.”
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“The other…embarks within the mind of the knower”
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“THEORY” From “The Scheme of Things” by Allen Wheelis
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“There is a brilliantly worded explanation for this.”
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“Prayer of Incompetence”
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Adrienne von Speyr”: Beauty is not a subjective judgment of taste but a transcendental characteristic of all being that raptures the subject away from itself.” — Dr. Adrienne von Speyr (1902-1967) on the aesthetic theology of her confessor, Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988)
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Alan Jacobs: that dialogue is between persons, not words on a page
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Alan Jacobs…”…the essay form is the literary representation of a man thinking…”
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Alexis de Tocqueville: “…bribe the public with the public’s money…”