Making Plans
April 10, 2007
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
J. R. R. Tolkien, from The Hobbit
The Swing of the Pendulum
March 1, 2007
“The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.”
G. K. Chesterton, “The New House” Alarms and Discursions
Swimming Upstream
February 28, 2007
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
G. K. Chesterton, “The Five Deaths of the Faith” The Everlasting Man
Head in the Sand
February 19, 2007
“The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Ring
victory?
February 18, 2007
“hope is not victory”
J. R. R. Tolkien
Grave Miscalculation
February 17, 2007
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Path of Wisdom
January 30, 2007
“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
J. R.R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
The Treacherous
January 26, 2007
“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973), Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers
