Wednesday History Note: Winston Churchill
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“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
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“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
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“Americans had been well prepared for their revoluion by colonial institutions. The American people had long been knit together by their towns, schools, congregations, and militia. Public issues had always been subject to debate. Every turn of the revolutionary movement had been argued—in town meetings (in other words, not decided elsewhere and dictated from above,…
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Awe is the best of man: however the world’s misprizing of the feeling would prevent us, deeply we feel, once gripped, the weird uncanny monstrous. (from Faust, Second Part, Act 1, Scene 5) This quote is used by Rudolf Otto in his book The Idea of the Holy to help explain the concept of the numinous. For…