A Lament For Lost Fragments
“Those who seek gold dig up much earth but find little.”
– Heraclitus, (Fragment B22)
Tag: history
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
Book Review: The Love of Learning and the Desire for God by Jean Leclercq, O.S.B.
“The love of God is honourable wisdom.”
– Ecclesiasticus 1:14
The Death of Saint Louis IX
“Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.”
– Psalms 30:6
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 Download: The Cathedral by Joris-Karl Huysmans Translated by Clara Bell
“Everything lies contained in that building,” he went on, waving his hand to designate the church; “the scriptures, theology, the history of the human race, set forth in a broad outline. Thanks to the science of symbolism a pile of stones may be a macrocosm.”
Book Review: The Cathedral by Joris-Karl Huysmans Translated by Clara Bell
“I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to thy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy holy name above all.”
– Psalm 137:2
Book Download: En Route by Joris-Karl Huysmans Translated by Charles Kegan Paul
“No, the more I think of her,” he cried, “the more I think her prodigious, unique, the more I am convinced that she alone holds the truth, that outside her are only weaknesses of mind, impostures, scandals. The Church is the divine breeding ground, the heavenly dispensary of souls…”