Monday, March 8, 2021

 "Matter in Descartes had become an inert oppressive presence, doing its job in a reliable robotlike way but surrounding and confronting us with its essential lifelessness everywhere we look -- even in the eyes of our favorite pets."

 

- Quoted from: The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

Friday, October 16, 2020

If war is politics by other means and the first casualty of war is the truth, it is because the first casualty of politics is the truth.