LINK: This happens to be one of those things which I'd quote front to back, if I thought anyone would actually read it. But it's just blindingly, amazingly put together.
Me Likey:
"I like to cite C. S. Lewis's remark that "if you have only read a great book once, you have not read it at all." My addendum to that remark is that every time you read say, Aristotle's Ethics, even after you have read it 50 or 60 times, you will find something startlingly new in it, something that you never saw before, even though you read it over and over. This morning, for example, I was reading the Second Book of Aristotle's Ethics for class tomorrow. I again came across the following passage, which I had indeed underlined semesters ago. I saw that this passage had previously struck me: "For, first, we do not decide to do what is impossible, and anyone claiming to decide to do it would seem a fool; but we do wish for what is impossible, e.g., never to die, as well as for what is possible." When read attentively, the whole structure of reason and revelation, a topic on which I have often written, is contained in this one brief passage."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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