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What time is yours?
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE) has some blunt words to share about procrastination, which I cannot disagree with*: Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you...
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Ingersoll on doubt
I offer for contemplation a quote by the great 19th-century orator, Robert Green Ingersoll: Fear believes, courage doubts. (from his Lecture on Ghosts – see this collection in Project Gutenberg for the...
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What loss is death?
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE), book 2, paragraph 14: Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he...
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Quote on love
This quote appeared in a page-a-day calendar recently. Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. I have been unable to verify who the...
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Entitled to our own opinions
From his book Looking in the Distance (pages 101-102), here is Richard Holloway on the intersection of religion and science (emphasis mine): It is embarrassing when theologians try to conflate the...
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A transitory Yes
From A Room With a View, via my friend Gareth, comes this quote: Then make my boy think like us. Make him realise that by the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes—a transitory Yes, if you like,...
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Marc on temperance
I quite like this stoic advice from my good friend Marc (Meditations, book 4, paragraph 22): Never allow yourself to be swept off your feet; when an impulse stirs, see first that it will meet the...
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New Atheists?
I often wonder just what is meant by the phrase “The New Atheists”. I think it depends on the speaker – it generally seems to mean something like “atheists who are prominent in the public sphere...
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Selfish Gene
I just finished reading The Selfish Gene, the first of Richard Dawkins’ many books popularizing the fascinating byways and unexpected consequences of evolutionary theory. The Selfish Gene was first...
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Enjoying the present
A dear niece told me the other day that she missed my blogging. I miss it too. Perhaps some time soon I will return to it – I have some ideas that I would love to share with you all. For now, let me...
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