“Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.”
—Giambattista Vico.
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Norman Mailer: Welfare
“To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there’s more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.”
—Norman Mailer, author (31 Jan 1923-2007).
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Being insincere
“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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C S Lewis: Society of possible gods and goddesses
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship…You have never talked to a mere mortal.”
—C S Lewis.
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Elisabeth Elliott: Rupture
“The self, small and hard and resisting as a nut, will have to be ruptured. My own purposes and desires and hopes will have to at times be exploded. The rupture of the self is death, but out of death comes life. The acorn must rupture if an oak tree is to grow.”
—Elisabeth Elliott.
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Billy Wilder: Critical genius
“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark – that is critical genius.”
—Billy Wilder.
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C S Lewis: Redeemed humanity
“For God is not merely mending, not simply restoring a status quo. Redeemed humanity is to be something more glorious than unfallen humanity.”
—C S Lewis.
