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There is a science of the aspects of things, as well as of their nature; and it is as much a fact to be noted...that they produce such and such an effect upon the eye or heart...as that they are made up of certain atoms or vibrations of matter. – John Ruskin, ModernPainters III.4

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Christus resurrexit! Vere resurrexit! Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη

May the angels lead you into paradise; may the martyrs receive you at your arrival and lead you to the holy city Jerusalem. May choirs of angels receive you and with Lazarus, once a poor man, may you have eternal rest.

The structure of a human heart is just as much of a reality as any other in this universe, neither more nor less of a reality than the trajectory of a planet. — Simone Weil, The Need for Roots 240

Such studies are the way to the highest things, the way of reason which chooses for itself ordered steps lest it fall from the height. The steps are the various liberal arts. — Augustine, De Ordine I.8.24

We have this inveterate tendency to think that to be is to be intelligible, and that to be intelligible is to be determinate. But— and this is the rub-the original astonishment is not determinate in that way at all. — William Desmond, ‘Being, Determination, and Dialectic’

The intellect arrives at the end of its route not when it reaches the truth in the act of judgment but rather when the whole person becomes committed to freely giving himself as a gift to others. It is love that brings reason to fulfillment… a ‘via cognitionis.’ — Pope Francis

Making my entire pedagogy mouse-based from now on

It’s ridiculous, isn’t it, to strain every nerve to attain the utmost exactness and clarity about other things of little value and not to consider the most important things worthy of the greatest exactness? – Plato, Republic 504d

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The first wonder one feels forms the first step on the path that leads to the beatific vision, the state of blessedness resulting from reaching the Ultimate Cause. — Josef Pieper, Leisure 104

There is no time like Spring, Like Spring that passes by; There is no life like Spring-life born to die… There is no time like Spring that passes by, Now newly born, and now Hastening to die. – Christina Rossetti, ‘Spring’

Human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal… Their ultimate enslavement is when they give themselves up to vice and no longer exercise their powers of reason. – Boethius, Consolation V.ii

My own thought has always been directed by a passionate love… for music, harmony, peace. And when I was still very young I grasped the truth that it is impossible to build true peace on abstractions…. – Gabriel Marcel, Man against Mass Society

It is because we now recognize that reason cannot contain itself that it possesses an openness towards being. — David Walsh, The Modern Philosophical Revolution, 16

This book, alongside the D'Aulaires books on Greek and Norse myths, still lives so deeply in my imagination

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast [L’homme n’est ni ange ni bête, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l’ange fait la bête]. — Blaise Pascal, Pensées #329

Show your ethics using four books

It can’t be emphasized enough: wide swaths of the academy have given up re ChatGPT. Colleges have had since 2022 to figure something out and have done less than nothing. Haven’t even tried. Or tried to try. The administrative class has mostly collaborated with the LLM takeover.