Why Are They So Devoid of Eloquence?
“The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God. They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one.”
– Psalms 13:1
Tag: philosophy
A Lament For Lost Fragments
“Those who seek gold dig up much earth but find little.”
– Heraclitus, (Fragment B22)
Book Review of A History of Philosophy, Vol. I: Greece and Rome by Fr. Fredrick Copleston, S.J.
“And a vision was shewed to Paul in the night, which was a man of Macedonia standing and beseeching him, and saying: Pass over into Macedonia, and help us.”
– Acts 16:9
Moralists Without Morals
“I would fain flee to Sarmatia and the frozen Sea when people who ape the Curii and live like Bacchanals dare talk about morals.”
– Juvenal, Satire II
Book Review of A History of Philosophy, Vol. II: Medieval Philosophy, from Augustine to Duns Scotus by Fr. Fredrick Copleston, S.J.
“Christians believed first of all, and only afterwards, in the desire to defend, to explain and to understand what they believed, did they develop theology, and in a subordination to philosophy, theology.”
– Fr. Copleston, S.J
Book Review: My Way of Life by Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M. and Fr. Martin J. Healy, S.T.D.
“With his spirit at once humble and swift, his memory ready and tenacious, his life spotless throughout, a lover of truth for its own sake, richly endowed with human and divine science, like the sun he heated the world with the warmth of his virtues and filled it with the splendor of his teaching.”
– Leo XIII on St. Thomas Aquinas
The Westphalian Fallacy
“Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.”
– Psalm 126:1
Judith Butler’s Gnostic Nonsense
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
– Ephesians 5:11
Book Review: The Confessions of Saint Augustine
“Thou touchedst me, and I burned for Thy peace.” – St. Augustine
Joseph De Maistre Against Critical Race Theory
“An indomitable pride incessantly leads them to overthrow everything they have not made; and to create anew they separate themselves from the principle of all existence.” – Joseph de Maistre