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The furious behaviour of an angry man is more likely to exasperate us against himself than against his enemies.
“Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“In a far more complete sense Jesus Christ as the logos is a meaningful declaration of what in the father is otherwise unfathomable.”
― St. Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch
― St. Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“The world was ripe for this saving act, for men and powers alike are caught in situations from which they cannot emerge without divine help.”
― St. Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch
― St. Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch
“Myth... is a statement of truth cast in dramatic form to suggest the dynamic interrelations of the divine, the world, and man.”
― St. Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch
― St. Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch
Nicholas’s 2025 Year in Books
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