Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence

A mouse might be in a cookie jar.. but
he is not a cookie
Casper Ten Boom, father of read more

A mouse might be in a cookie jar.. but
he is not a cookie
Casper Ten Boom, father of Corrie Ten Boom, author
of The Hiding Place.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when read more

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not read more

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a read more

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking

Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its read more

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.