Palm Sunday
The 10th of Nisan was the day the children of Israel were commanded to choose an unblemished lamb for the Passover sacrifice on the 14th of Nisan. This is the Paschal Lamb to be the offered, roasted and eaten for Passover Seder.
William James – What is the Nature and Value of Religious Propensity?
The question, What are the religious propensities? and the question, What is their philosophic significance? are two entirely different orders of question from the logical point of view; and, as a failure to recognize this fact distinctly may breed confusion, I wish to insist upon the point a little before we enter into the documents […]
Great Books – A Valuation Statement
A great book one that catalyzes coherent thought, period. The more coherently a book catalyzes thought, the less I want to put it down.
William James – Feelings and Impulses Must be the Subject of Psychological Inquiry
If the inquiry be psychological, not religious institutions, but rather religious feelings and religious impulses must be its subject, and I must confine myself to those more developed subjective phenomena recorded in literature produced by articulate and fully self-conscious men, in works of piety and autobiography. The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James, Lecture […]
John Forbes Nash Jr: Eager to Astound: Sylvia Nasar: A Beautiful Mind
Almost always worked alone in his head… Eager to astound, he was always on the lookout for the really big problems. When he focused on some new puzzle he saw dimensions that people who really knew the subject, he never did, initially dismissed as Nieve or wrongheaded…. He sought to turn live’s decisions … into […]
Aristotle on Unity: When Every Part of the Soul Desires the Same Objects
He wishes for himself both what is, and what he believes to be, good; and he does it (it being characteristic of the good man to work at what is good)