Facts
Deny a fact, and that fact will be your master.imagination
Imagination rules the world.personal hell
To live with a gnawing grudge against one’s own civilization is the way to a personal Hell, not to a Terrestrial Paradise.chords of wonder
All great systems, ethical or political, attain their ascendency over the minds of men by virtue of their appeal to the imagination; and when they cease to touch the chords of wonder and mystery and hope, their power is lost, and men look elsewhere for some set of...kirk wise species
The conservative believes that the individual is foolish, although the species is wise; therefore, unlike the confident intellectual, he declines to undertake the reconstruction of society and human nature.
https://www.realclearbooks.com/
Thursday reads: @SnoozyWeiss for @TheFP, @galbeckerman for @TheAtlantic, @JesuInToast for his S*bstack, @elladorn_ for @NewStatesman, @hanszeiger for @ubookman, @AndrewGreif for @GQMagazine, and many others.
A “Sputnik Moment” for Civics---@hanszeiger
on Jeffrey Sikkenga (@AshbrookCenter) and David Davenport's "A Republic If We Can Teach It". @jackmillerctr