From Collingwood’s consistently delightful The New Leviathan (2.54):
Man’s world is infested by Sphinxes, demonic beings of mixed and monstrous nature which ask him riddles and eat him if he cannot answer them, compelling him to play a game of wits where the stake is his life and his only weapon is his tongue.
This quote dropped into my current work drafting a plague-on-both-your-houses piece on
just war theory and pacifism, and sent me looking for a quote I noted decades ago.
Collingwood, from The New Leviathan:(page number illegible, but apparently after 270):
“A life of peace does not mean a life of static quiescence and somnolence, a life
in which no occasions for quarrels arise. That is not peace but stagnation, and a
life of that kind is a slow death.”
Thank you.
just stumbled on these: http://sms.cam.ac.uk/institution/IOCS
i had an apartment with that problem once but the landlord told me they would go away when it got cold again.
Goddamn I love a good quote.
Me too.