Friday, July 30, 2010

Quotes to think on

Rather than write a full blog post which I do not have the time for, I decided to simply post a couple quotes. The first is taken from Rushdoony's Biblical Philosophy of History quoting C. S. Pierce:



Pragmatism is the principle that every theoretical judgment expressible in a sentence in the indicative mood is a confessed form of thought whose only meaning, if it has any, lies in its tendency to enforce a corresponding practical maxim expressible as a conditional sentence having its apodosis in the imperative mood. (38)




Now before you fry your motherboard. . . .Rushdoony was kind enough to boil it down to a level which I could understand: "'Truth,' we might say, is thus whatever works. . .(38)"

On a different note, here are a few verses I read this morning in Proverbs 9.

7 Two things I request of You
(Deprive me not before I die):
8 Remove falsehood and lies far from me;
Give me neither poverty nor riches--
Feed me with the food allotted to me;
9 Lest I be full and deny You
And say, "Who is the Lord?"
Or lest I be poor and steal,
And profane the name of my God.



"The world goes not well, but the Kingdom comes!"

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