Quotes by John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

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The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physi — John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you — John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts c — John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of moderni — John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
Growing up loving the Bible made me apt to love other books. I don't love them in the same way I love the Bible, but a l — John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
For Aristotle, it's not enough simply to act in accordance with the reason once in a while. We must cultivate habits of — John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
Every nation needs more people who love liberty, fear mob rule, and hate tyranny with the consistent logic and passion o — John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
Tolstoy does not tell us how things look to the author; he tells us how they look to the characters. In short, he does n — John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven. — John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
Chaucer, like Homer, writes about a journey, but as a Christian he has a different goal. Homer wanted to go home, but Ch — John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation. — John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
Here (in Thomas Aquinas) is the mind that prepared the way for the scientific and industrial revolutions. Here is the mi — John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
Austen knew nothing of our modern quest for equality. People are not numbers, and so they are never “equal.” Some folk a — John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization