Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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G K Chesterton: Not an everlasting coincidence
“A horrible suspicion that has sometimes haunted me is that the Conservative and the Progressive are secretly in partnership. That the quarrel they keep up in public is a put-up job, and that the way they perpetually play into each other’s hands is not an everlasting coincidence.” –G K Chesterton.
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Don’t join the book burners
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…” —Dwight D Eisenhower.
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Lois McMaster Bujold: Tests
“Tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.” —Lois McMaster Bujold, writer.
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G K Chesterton: Nothing can be irrelevant
“If Christianity should happen to be true, then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything. Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Dignity of human nature
“There are some things more important than peace, and one of them is the dignity of human nature.” —G K Chesterton.
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Summer Sanders: To be a champion
“To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. Its not about winning and losing, its about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. Its about embracing the pain that youll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard…
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Yahia Lababidi: Aphorisms
“Aphorisms respect the wisdom of silence by disturbing it, but briefly.” —Yahia Lababidi, aphorist (b. 25 Sep 1973).
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Simon Sinek: Goal of life
“The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alice Childress: Just a short walk
“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.” —Alice Childress, playwright, author, and actor (12 Oct 1916-1994).
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G K Chesterton: Good government
“A poor man has much more interest in good government than a rich man. A poor man must stay and be misgoverned; a rich man has a yacht.” —G K Chesterton.
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Warren Buffett: No master plan
“We don’t have a master plan…. Charlie and I do not sit around and strategize or talk about the future of various industries or do anything of that sort. It just doesn’t happen. We don’t have any reports. We don’t have any staff. We don’t have any of that…. We try to look at what…
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Petronius Arbiter: Illusion of progress
“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency…
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G K Chesterton: Public education
“Public education has not produced an educated public.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: To the end of the world
“A man can be a Christian to the end of the world, for the simple reason that a man could have been an Atheist from the beginning of it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Luciano Pavarotti: No brains required
“You don’t need any brains to listen to music.” —Luciano Pavarotti.
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Mark Twain: Not enough said
“I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me — I always feel that they have not said enough.” —Mark Twain, humorist and writer.
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G K Chesterton: Tradition
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Forever
“All lies come to an end. The truth, however, will last forever.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: The Future
“The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time–for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.” C S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Wise enough
“Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?” —Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat, author, and lecturer (11 Oct 1884-1962).
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Seth Klarman: Sentiment
“Students of financial history can point to historic levels of valuation to suggest that we are in a bubble. But students of psychology may be needed to complete the picture. For one thing, the financial markets have been so strong for so long that fear of market risk has mostly evaporated. People who used to…
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen: Your economics
“The basic problem of the economic world is a spiritual one: what is the nature of man? Tell me what you believe about a man, and I will tell you your economics.” —Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
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Emily Deschanel: Recycle
“It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup – and each time you do, that’s a victory.” —Emily Deschanel.
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Epicetus: Add practice then training
“(A good philosopher) should not be satisfied with mere learning, but add practice then training. For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite, and hold opinions the opposite of what we should.” —Epicetus.
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Thomas Kempis: Weight scales equally
“It is always the other man that has too much rope given him — our wishes must not be thwarted; rules for everybody else, but our own liberties must not be abridged for a moment. My neighbor as myself — it is not often, is it, that we weight the scales equally?” —Thomas Kempis.
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G K Chesterton: Idolatry
“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Queerer
“There is nothing queerer today than the importance of unimportant things. Except, of course, the unimportance of important things.” —G K Chesterton.
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Lin Yutang: Big shadows
“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.” —Lin Yutang, writer and translator (10 Oct 1895-1976).
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G K Chesterton: One method
“A vast amount of the moral philosophy, political philosophy, religious and irreligious philosophy, of our time resolves itself into one method. This consists of putting the question in the wrong way, and then asking for a plain answer.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Been to a dentist?
“What do people mean when they say, ‘I am not afraid of God because I know He is good’? Have they never even been to a dentist?” —C S Lewis, A Grief Observed.
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Helen Hayes: Only glimpse of eternity
“The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity: love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.” —Helen Hayes.
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Seneca: Digest it
“We should see to it that whatever we have absorbed should not be allowed to remain unchanged, or it will be no part of us. We must digest it: otherwise it will merely enter the memory and not the reasoning power [in memoriam non in ingenium]. Let us loyally welcome such foods and make them…
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G K Chesterton: Horrible and deadly danger
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” —G K Chesterton.
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Benjamin Rush: Freedom
“Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.” —Benjamin Rush, physician and Founding Father.
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Simon Sinek: Leaders
“The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Opportunity
“We should all have an opportunity to feel a part of something, not just have a part in something.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Errors
“We only regard errors as being things that are within our circle of competence. So if somebody knows how to make money in cocoa beans, or they know how to make money in a software company or anything, and we miss that, that is not an error, as far as we’re concerned. What’s an error…
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G K Chesterton: Civilization
“Civilization is not a development. It is a decision. It is the decisive people who have become civilized; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher skeptics, or the idealistic doubters who have remained barbarians.” —G K Chesterton.
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Guillermo del Toro: Art and religion
“When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.” —Guillermo del Toro.
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John Brunner: Absolute evil
“If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.” —John Brunner, novelist (24 Sep 1934-1995).
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Desmond Tutu: Talk to your enemies
“If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” —Desmond Tutu.
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John W Gardner: Stand out of their light
‘When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: “Only stand out of my light.” Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of…
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C S Lewis: Repentance
“Repentance means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into… It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death.” —C S Lewis.
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Desmond Tutu: Neutrality
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” —Desmond Tutu, clergyman (b. 7 Oct 1931).
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Nick Cannon: Nobody can predict the future
“Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship youre in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other…
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C S Lewis: Interruptions
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life — the life God is sending one day by day.” —C S Lewis.
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Nigella Lawson: Enjoy food
“People don’t have to be greedy, but it seems to me that life is a whole lot better if you enjoy food.” —-Nigella Lawson.
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G K Chesterton: Ignore reason, ignore restraint
“If your ideals ignore reason, your instincts will ignore restraint.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Shattered time after time
“My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.” —C S Lewis, A Grief Observed.
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C S Lewis: Fidelity
“Being in love first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.” —C S Lewis.
