mas
@mas
mas
Reflection
The inconstant queen
relents her reign,
begins to cloak
illumined face
in shadow yet again,
an ever creeping
shadow deep’ning
darkest of dark nights
when face is hid
from all the world
and all celestial lights,
till she begins
to lift full veil
and once more deigns
to claim her rule,
mutable mind
marking months since
time immemorial.
poetry and gold and dross
The bachelor who took care of the church in the Curiosity Shop, a predecessor of those who would edit history to only be acceptable history
It hurt me to think that we never acknowledge the absolutely mysterious character of Nature, but always speak so confidently of explaining her, whereas all that we have really done is to go into fuller and more complicated descriptions, which only make the mysterious more mysterious than ever.
Albert Schweitzer
I do fear that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty will be dealt by this country, in the failure of its example on the earth.”
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it
hinterlander • Tweet
The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king. This is the only way in which truth can ever find refuge from public persecution, and the good man survive the bad government.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
For the perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them;
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
"Desire nothing for thyself, seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man's future and thy own fate must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for anything. If it be God's will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, be ready to fulfill His will."
Leo Tolstoy • War and Peace
It is a commonplace that men are all agreed in using symbols, and all differ about the meaning of the symbols.