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| b171e85 | Maybe Ian doesn't come from london at all, but from Idaho. And not the potato part of Idaho, but the crazy, inbred parents locking their children up in a cabin, away from schooling and vitamins, guarding 'em safe with a twelve-gauge shotgun, part of Idaho. | Alison Pace | ||
| 327b250 | The best thing about a photograph is that it never changes. Even if the people in it do. | Andy Warhol | ||
| fff17b0 | Whether through blind luck or sound business sense, Blum ended up buying the whole set of soup cans for $1,000, paying $100 per month till it was paid off. In 1999 he sold them to the Museum of Modern Art for $7 million in cash and a $7 million tax deduction. | Jan Greenberg | ||
| e146385 | Central to Mill's approach throughout On Liberty is his 'Harm Principle', the idea that individual adults should be free to do whatever they wish up to the point where they harm another person in the process. Mill's principle is apparently straightforward: the only justification for interference with someone's freedom to live their life as they choose is if they risk harming other people. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| d605e7d | The best way to eliminate all suffering in the world would be to eliminate all sentient life. If there were no living things capable of feeling pain, then there would be no pain. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| 73cc37b | Kierkegaard was a Christian, though he hated the Danish Church and couldn't accept the way complacent Christians around him behaved. For him, religion was a heart-wrenching option, not a cosy excuse for a song in church. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| 8cd3dd5 | Usually we think a person is obligated to do something that would benefit many people, but what if that "something" is committing murder? Which is more important, doing good--or not doing wrong?" | William Irwin | ||
| 688cb55 | Luckily, literature--and by "literature" I mean comic books--provides us a way to discuss issues like these without having to experience them. We don't have to trick people into standing in front of a runaway trolley, and we don't have to have a real-life Batman and Joker. That's what thought experiments are for--they let us play through an imaginary scenario and imagine what we should or shouldn't do." | William Irwin | ||
| 6e99f6d | Superman's cosmopolitan decision could be interpreted simply as DC Comics attempting to appeal to the global market for Superman stuff. Less cynically, though, one blogger said, "It's refreshing to see an alien refugee tell the United States that it's as important to him as any other country on Earth--which, in turn, is as important to Superman as any other planet in the multiverse." | William Irwin | ||
| 93b998e | England for him was no longer a real place, but a consecrated isle in the lake of forgetting, where the God of the English still strode through an imaginary Eden, admiring His works. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 38b58aa | Top-down government breeds irresponsible individuals, and the confiscation of civil society by the state leads to a widespread refusal among the citizens to act for themselves. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 50dd6e8 | The heretic is the one who speaks against the community from a place within its territory. He is the enemy within. The heathen, by contrast, is safely behind the walls, excluded by his own invincible arrogance. | politics | Roger Scruton | |
| 0f65943 | Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created. This is especially true of the good things that come to us as collective assets: peace, freedom, law, civility, public spirit, the security of property and family life, in all of which we depend on the cooperation of others while having no means singlehandedly to obtain it. In respect of.. | conservatism falsehood politics protecting tradition truth | Roger Scruton | |
| 830cf37 | People settle by acquiring a first-person plural - a place, a community and a way of life that is 'ours'. The need for this 'we' is not accepted by internationalists, by revolutionary socialists, or by intellectuals wedded to the Enlightenment's timeless, placeless vision of the ideal community. But it is a fact, and indeed the primary fact from which all community and all politics begin. George Orwell noticed this, during the course of the.. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 550f2cf | Classical liberalism tells of the growth of individual liberty against the power of the sovereign. Socialism tells of the steadily increasing equality brought about by the state at the expense of the entrenched hierarchies of social power. | Roger Scruton | ||
| fc33f42 | But this experience taught me that our civilization cannot survive if we continue to appease the Islamists. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 6709845 | Judgement requires, then, the joint operation of sensibility and understanding. A mind without concepts would have no capacity to think; equally, a mind armed with concepts, but with no sensory data to which they could be applied, would have nothing to think about. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 649c95d | If he had stayed in Slovenia, and Slovenia had stayed Communist, Zizek would not have been the nuisance he has since become. Indeed, if there were no greater reason to regret the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, the release of Zizek on to the world of Western scholarship would perhaps already be a sufficient one. | marxism slavoj-zizek | Roger Scruton | |
| 43ab481 | Locke's essay on Toleration of 1689 argued for the toleration of opinions and ways of life with which you do not agree, as one of the virtues of a liberal society. But many who call themselves liberal today seem to have little understanding of what this virtue really is. Toleration does not mean renouncing all opinions that others might find offensive. It does not mean an easy-going relativism or a belief that 'anything goes'. On the contra.. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 4f7003d | In the face of sorrow, imperfection and the fleetingness of our affections and joys, we ask ourselves 'why?'. We need reassurance. We look to art for the proof that life in this world is meaningful and that suffering is not the pointless thing that it so often appears to be, but the necessary part of a larger and redeeming whole. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 7a75c75 | Nor should we be surprised that it is absent from the world of the Islamists - even though forgiveness has an important place in the practice of Islam and in the morality of the Koran.4 | Roger Scruton | ||
| ea44614 | Jack regarded himself as locked in a lifelong struggle with this establishment, on behalf of the Anglo-Saxon peasantry whose birthright had been stolen a thousand years earlier by the Norman knights. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 305c61d | Sense of sacrifice is good but only if you're sacrificing your own life; once you sacrifice another's life you've overstepped the mark. | Roger Scruton | ||
| ffb5b27 | Through sacred things we can influence and be influenced by the transcendental. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 4a0767e | In a moment of doubt about the socialist record Eric Hobsbawm once wrote: 'If the left have to think more seriously about the new society, that does not make it any the less desirable or necessary or the case against the present one any less compelling.'1 There, in a nutshell, is the sum of the New Left's commitment. We know nothing of the socialist future, save only that it is both necessary and desirable. Our concern is with the 'compelli.. | marxism | Roger Scruton | |
| 9fc461f | Life is short, but the years are long. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| d761d27 | But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road holiness. | god holiness prayer | Peter Kreeft | |
| 17fa69a | I don't pay any attention to politics. | Heinlein Robert A. | ||
| 89972bf | AB: I think great chefs evolve that balance between what they themselves can bring, creatively and technically. The great chefs understand human desire. They can balance nurturing with the desire to dazzle or seduce or impress. They understand those things, instinctively if not explicitly. They may not be able to articulate them, necessarily. But they do understand. There's a lot going on. Ferran Adria, Thomas Keller. There is Mom's voice i.. | David Blum | ||
| 76c419c | Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London is invaluable. As is Nicolas Freleng's The Kitchen, David Blum's Flash in the Pan, the Batterberrys' fine account of American restaurant history, On the Town in New York, and Joseph Mitchell's Up in the Old Hotel. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 354cfb4 | We are, after all, citizens of the world -- a world filled with bacteria, some friendly, some not so friendly. Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonald's? | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| fc4f1b1 | Frighteningly honest. What Anthony Bourdain did to the world of cooking in Kitchen Confidential, Leopold will do to the world of journalism. It's Sid & Nancy meets All the President's Men. | Rob Cohen | ||
| 03b3d50 | Shepherd's pie'? 'Chili special'? Sounds like leftovers to me. How about swordfish? I like it fine. But my seafood purveyor, when he goes out to dinner, won't eat it. He's seen too many of those 3-foot-long parasitic worms that riddle the fish's flesh. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 452f11d | We are, after all, citizens of the world -- a world filled with bacteria, some friendly, some not so friendly. Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonald's? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? .. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 044c445 | But it's Atlanta that can lay claim to the best of the best (which is to say worst) chef-friendly dives in America: the legendary Clermont Lounge, a sort of lost-luggage department for strippers, who perform--perfunctorily--on a stage behind the bar. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 6d741ef | I've assembled a pretty good collection of mid-'70s New York punk classics on tape: Dead Boys, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Heartbreakers, Ramones, Television and so on, | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 33c4f18 | The person who is committing the sin of sloth may be doing nothing visible that is wrong. Yet he is rejecting the presence of God, refusing the joy of love. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ff7458c | Brother Lawrence says, in , 'There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it' (Letter 5). No one who has ever tried it has ever given it a lesser rating than that. For even though our prayer-contact with God may be almost infinitely poor, the God we thus contact is infinitely rich! Therefore, 'we are to be pitied w.. | god prayer | Peter Kreeft | |
| d7afc11 | How do we listen to his voice? With the ear of our heart. With love. Love has ears, as love has eyes. Just be there, and love him, and let him love you." (35). Easier said than done. "What will happen then? What will we hear? Let God take care of that. Seek only him, do not use him as a means to seek any other end. He is not your Santa, he is your Savior. I cannot tell you what he will give you, except for one thing: he will give you himsel.. | god prayer | Peter Kreeft | |
| 4ea07fb | In fact, I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those effects down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 4d8e020 | Only is a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time. | temporal time | Peter Kreeft | |
| 32dcda4 | God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our efforts with peace and joy. And he makes it easiest of all at the end, for it gradually becomes more natural and delightful. | faith god prayer | Peter Kreeft | |
| c05c43e | That freedom is lost in Hell. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 9d820a5 | No one can live without delight," writes Peter Kreeft, "and that is why a man, deprived of spiritual joy goes over to carnal pleasures." -- | Dan Schaeffer |