Quotes 2 Oct 17

“The idea that she might subordinate her feelings for the good of some higher purpose did not sit easily with Diana. Because according to this new mantra, there is no higher purpose than simply what one feels”- Rod Liddle

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”  Epictetus  c. AD 50 – 135) Greek Stoic philosopher.

So long as Islam remains Islam (which it will) and the West remains the West (which is more dubious), the fundamental conflict between two great civilisations and ways of life will continue to define their relations in the future even as it has defined them for the past fourteen centuries. -  Samuel P Huntington, The Clash of Civilisations, p 212

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell” ― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness

If we take our meaning in life from our family, our work, a cause, or some achievement other than God, they enslave us.-  Tim Keller Wisdom‏ @DailyKeller