Mentions (7)
"Someone who's so obsessed with the cultures and languages of Medieval Europe and/or Christian theology (or, in Herbert's case, Arabia and Islam, great man theory, and the interplay between human civilization and ecology) that they not only devote their lives to studying it intensely, but also incide"
"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolesce"
"Hence the encouragement we have given to all those schemes of thought such as creative evolution, scientific humanism, or Communism, which fix men's affections on the future, on the very core of temporality. Hence nearly all vices are rooted in the future."
"Lewis nearly died in the trenches of the Somme at 19 and authored some of the most iconic fantasy novels of all time, he earned the right to read some fairy tales. You're 36 and unthinkingly consume Marvel slop, grow up"
"Our business is to get them away from the eternal, and from the Present. With this in view, we sometimes tempt a human to live in the Past. But this is of limited value, for they have some real knowledge of the past and it has a determinate nature and, to that extent, resembles eternity. It is far b"
"Him, Dr. Cornel West, and C.S. Lewis are the only cool Protestant figures"
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."