John Matthews

“As we shall see, worldviews, the grid through which humans perceive reality, emerge into explicit consciousness in terms of human beliefs and aims, which function as in principle debatable expressions of the worldviews. The stories which characterize the worldview itself are thus located, on the map of human knowing, at a more fundamental level than explicitly formulated beliefs, including theological beliefs.”
― N.T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God

“Tell someone to do something, and you change their life—for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.”
― N.T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God

“De Tocqueville and Lord Acton speak with one voice on this subject. “Democracy and socialism,” De Tocqueville wrote, “have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”30 And Acton joined him in believing that “the deepest cause which made the French revolution so disastrous to liberty was its theory of equality”31 and that “the finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away, because the passion for equality made vain the hope for freedom.”32”
― Friedrich A. Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order

“The purpose of thinking is to let the ideas die instead of us dying.”
― Alfred North Whitehead