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modern education concentrates on teaching subjects, leaving the method of thinking, arguing and expressing one's conclusions to be picked up by the scholar as he goes along; mediaeval education concentrated on first forging and learning to
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“Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.”
― The Mortification Of Sin
― The Mortification Of Sin
“The difficulty faced by a philosopher who, like myself, is sympathetic to this suggestion [e.g., Foucault’s]—one who thinks of himself as auxiliary to the poet rather than to the physicist—is to avoid hinting that this suggestion gets something right, that my sort of philosophy corresponds to the way things really are. For this talk of correspondence brings back just the idea my sort of philosopher wants to get rid of, the idea that the world or the self has an intrinsic nature.”
― Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
― Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
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“The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.”
― Communion with God
― Communion with God
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