"The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the
exhilaration of a vice. Moral truisms have been so much disputed that
they have begun to sparkle like so many brilliant paradoxes." - The Defendant, G. K. Chesterton
I like what Chesterton has to say in Heretics: "The virtue of hope exists only in earthquake and, eclipse . . .. For practical purposes it is at the hopeless moment that we require the hopeful man, and the virtue either does not exist at all, or begins to exist at that moment. Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful."
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| The phoenix is perhaps my favorite mythological creature, who rises from the ashes after self-immolation. I'm sensing a metaphor here? |
