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
Clever Devil
January 27, 2007
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
C. S. Lewis
Treasure Snatched Away
January 23, 2007
“Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue.”
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973), Mandos, The Silmarillion, Of the Flight of the Noldor
