Sertillanges speaking about “hard science” in The Intellectual Life — Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods: The sciences, without philosophy, discrown themselves and lose their direction. The sciences and philosophy without theology discrown themselves more lamentably, since the crown they repudiate is a heavenly one; and they go more irremediably astray, for earth without heaven cannot find the path of its orbit, nor the influences that give it fruitfulness. And a continuation of the previous quote:

Often times I read multiple books at the same time. I usually always have a book in progress on my kindle, one on my desk, and another floating around somewhere between my nightstand or day bag. While I can’t say that this makes my reading any faster, one thing it does do is give me an opportunity to compare different things books say, or in the case of books on a particular area of philosophy, understand their particular philosophical application as it pertains to situations in another book.

I know I haven’t written much here recently, most of it has been going into my physical commonplace book. I have, however, taken some time to update my quotes page with some of the quotes pulled from books and articles that I’ve recently read. A lot of these get written down in my commonplace book as I draw connections (either in writing or sometimes in drawing) between different sources. Without context or reading some quotes may not be as useful to others, but there is beauty in wordplay regardless.