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Karen Swallow Prior
“But the cultivation and expression of virtue (and vice) and the formation of conscience is not merely an individual act but also a communal one. In addition to shaping individual experience and character, great literature has a role in forming the communal conscience and public virtue. We can understand a great deal about culture—its strengths, its weakness, its blind spots, and its struggles—when we examine the literature it not only produces but reveres.”
Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

William Wilberforce
“What is good is only a matter of opinion in secular society. Using society’s own standard of goodness, careful observation of the bigger picture may reveal that a particular good has been outweighed by general evil. When a society defines its own morality and then applies it to itself, that society can justify its own serious breaches of character. It is able to lower the standard to the detriment of all.”
William Wilberforce, Real Christianity

Karen Swallow Prior
“What does it mean to practice faith well? While our works cannot save us, our habits can strengthen our faith.”
Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

Augustine of Hippo
“Virgil certainly is held to be a great poet; in fact he is regarded as the best and the most renowned of all poets, and for that reason he is read by children at an early age-they take great draughts of his poetry into their unformed minds, so that they may not easily forget him, for, as Horace remarks, "New vessels will for long retain the taste of what is first poured into them.”
Augustine of Hippo, City of God

Nicholas Carr
“But except in rare circumstances, you can train until you’re blue in the face and you’d never be as good as if you just focused on one thing at a time.” What we’re doing when we multitask “is learning to be skillful at a superficial level.” The Roman philosopher Seneca May have put it best two thousand years ago: “To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

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