Highlights from the blog of Scott Horton, No Comment, on Harper's Web site, that I think are sounding the same notes I'm trying to hit. Not that I think these posts are about me; no, these posts just are.
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"And so it befell me that after so many attempts at naming the world, I am able only to repeat, harping on one strong, the highest, the unique avowal beyond which no power can attain: I am, she is. Shout, blow the trumpets, make thousands-strong marches, rend your clothing, repeating only: is!" –Czeslaw Milosz
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"The Religion that is afraid of science dishonours God and commits suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth, that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God’s empires but is not the immutable universal law." --Emerson
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"In order to obtain a correct estimate of ourselves, we must reflect on the results of the investigations which have been made into the dimensions and the distances of the spheres and the stars." --Maimonides
"I wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence; that those which are overgrown may not advance beyond safe measures of power, that a salutary balance may be ever maintained among nations, and that our peace, commerce, and friendship, may be sought and cultivated by all." --T. Jefferson
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"You’ll hardly believe it,” said Douglass, addressing his companion as if there were no one else in the room, “but I gave my white mare and your bay horse four quarts of oats each, and there they are, eating side by side as quietly and contentedly as if they were of the same color! ‘Tis most extraordinary!” He did not laugh nor wink, but made his remark with a simple sincerity that was irresistible. There was a moment of silence. Then came the echo. Human wit had spoken, and a human heart answered.... A little tact had been a hundredfold more effectual in melting a prejudice than a series of solemn lectures." --Curtis, recollecting F. Douglass
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"The mission of religion is to comfort humanity on its way to the gallows. The mission of politics is to make her weary of life; the mission of humanity: to shorten her appointment with the gallows, and then to poison the executioner’s last meal. –Karl Kraus
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This grave is a sublime renunciation
“It grows dark about me, let there be light!”
For all the possibilities that depreciate human life,
The immortal dies. He believes and thanks.
The farewell from a darkening day lights the horizon
So that the sun may shine for you again.
Through the gates of Hell of today and beyond
He dreams trusting in a perpetual peace.
He says it and the world is true again
And God’s heart opens up again with “and yet…”
It is documented, share the faith
So the promised salvation will come to you.
Oh save yourself from the calamity, hasten to the
Spirit that will bring you through yourself to the proper course....
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"The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed." --Hayek
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"But when we decide to do something that seems to us to be good when it is not really so, we are doing something that we do not really want to do, and therefore we are not really free." --Merton
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