
“In love, more a person repels us, more interesting he becomes.”
Original: In amore, più una persona ci respinge, più diventa interessante.
Source: prevale.net
From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.
“In love, more a person repels us, more interesting he becomes.”
Original: In amore, più una persona ci respinge, più diventa interessante.
Source: prevale.net
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 3: 'My six-year-old son should get a job; Is free trade always the answer?', p. 65
Context: I have a six-year-old son. His name is Jin-Gyu. He lives off me, yet he is quite capable of making a living. I pay for his lodging, food, education and health care. But millions of children of his age already have jobs. Daniel Defoe, in the 18th century, thought that children could earn a living from the age of four.
Moreover, working might do Jin-Gyu's character a world of good. Right now he lives in an economic bubble with no sense of the value of money. He has zero appreciation of the efforts his mother and I make on his behalf, subsidizing his idle existence and cocooning him from harsh reality. He is over-protected and needs to be exposed to competition, so that he can become a more productive person. Thinking about it, the more competition he is exposed to and the sooner this is done, the better it will be for his future development. It will whip him into a mentality that is ready for hard work. I should make him quit school and get a job. Perhaps I could move to a country where child labour is still tolerated, if not legal, to give him more choice in employment.
Quoted by Aldous Huxley, in The Perennial Philosophy https://archive.org/details/perennialphilosp035505mbp (1945)
“The more a person believes he’s free to think, the more I believe he’s a slave of his thoughts”