What is more praiseworthy than truth?
A question that resonates strongly today as we become accustomed to new tropes such as 'alternative facts'. Erasmus' masterpiece, first published...
Wisdom for a merrier world
Not a bad outline of what it would take to make the world merrier: the simple enjoyment of food, cheer...
Hell and how to avoid it
Brontë's Jane Eyre plumbs depths of emotion both in the child and woman, but there is also a certain wry...
The root of all wisdom
This is surely the crux of Brideshead Revisited and its most arresting, limpid quotation. It comes quite early in the...
How to help a bird fly
Wise words for human lives, all the more poignant for watching fledglings make mistakes and still persist in flying, even...
Definitions of philosophy II
I read and think quite a bit. However, when it comes to Western philosophy, it has always felt like a...
A country or a farm
A profound distinction, in my view, between a sum of parts and a sum of gifts. And does this just...
As wise as …
As many court fools were dwarfs, and fools could be wise, I was struck by this reference to being as...
Wise advice from a fool
Today, as well as being the 5th anniversary of WritingRedux, is also Shakespeare's birthday, one of the three reasons we...
On the practice of life
Alice Herz-Sommer was a pianist also believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor, living to 110. She combined an astonishing...
Seek and you shall find … something
A piece of sage advice - you will always find something if you look. But is it what you (thought...
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