In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.
But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.
We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
I worry that we have forgotten that the de-ideologized, de-politicized, uncontentious public space of the last 50 years as Europeans have experienced it is not the normal human condition. We shall be sorry to have abandoned a little too quickly the institutions that were set up by our parents and grandparents to protect themselves against a return of the bad old world. Because the bad old world can still come back to haunt you.
Israel today is bad for the Jews.
If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.
You're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That's value investing.
What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the fact that the patron saint of modern liberalism, John Stuart Mill, thought that barbarian peoples like the Indians were unfit for self-rule.
We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.