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Keith is Currently Reading

Keith Daw is currently reading

The Myth of Sisyphus

by Albert Camus

bookshelves: french, currently-reading

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Apr 12, 2025 05:16AM

“In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.”
― Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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“The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.”
― Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and other essays

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“A so-called ideal scheme which does not grow out of reality is definitely and finally not ideal at all.”
― Michael Oakeshott, Early Political Writings 1925-30: A discussion of some matters preliminary to the study of political philosophy' and 'The philosophical approach to ... Oakeshott Selected Writings Book 5)

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“To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”
― Michael Joseph Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and other essays

tags: conservatism, satisfaction

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