Religion and the Mode of Practice in Michael Oakeshott
Zygon — Volume44, Issue1, March 2009 Elizabeth CoreyEric VoegelinGeorg SimmelGeorge SantayanaMichael OakeshottReligion
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Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (5)
Lack of talent for business was a point of resemblance between him and me, but there were no others; I can say that, of the two of us, I represented strength, and he weakness. What I have already recorded in these notebooks proves that I possess and always have possessed – perhaps my supreme misfortune –…
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The Moviegoer: quotes (6)
“I no longer pretend to understand the world.” She is shaking her head yet still smiling her sweet menacing smile. “The world I knew has come crashing down around my ears. The things we hold dear are reviled and spat upon.” She nods toward Prytania Street. “It’s an interesting age you will live in—though I…
A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (5)
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Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (4)
Heaven no longer existed, and furthermore, at thirty, I was finished. This was the end for me, too! I realized for the first time that the most important, the decisive part of my life lay behind me, irretrievably. My grief was not merely egoistic, as these words might suggest. Not at all! I wept for…
The Moviegoer: quotes (5)
He was unaffected by the singularities of time and place. His abode was anywhere. It was all the same to him whether he catheterized a pig at four o’clock in the afternoon in New Orleans or at midnight in Transylvania. . . . Yet I do not envy him. I would not change places with…
A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (4)
“I dust a bit,” Ignatius told the policeman. “In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.” 30% discount code available here a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophy and literature
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Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (3)
15.4.1890. My father dies. L.C. For those who do not know, those last two letters do not stand for Lower Case, but for Last Cigarette. This is an annotation I find in a volume by Ostwald on positivistic philosophy, with which, full of hope, I have spent many hours and never understood. No one would…
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