2 Feb 2015

Continuing some thoughts about ‘wisdom’.

“One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-99; professor of physics at Göttingen University)

26 Jan 2015

Over the next few weeks I’ll share some thoughts about ‘wisdom’. Wisdom is needed in order to deal with all the problems in our lives, both personal and international.

The poet T S Eliot in his ‘Four Quartets’ was either critical or sceptical about the wisdom of old age and wrote:

“The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.”

T S Eliot (East Coker, one of the Four Quartets)

19 Jan 2015

One reflection on the recent incidences in France focused on the virtues which France lives by: liberty, equality and fraternity.

“Liberty and equality aren’t gods; they’re conditions for making an open and just society. But we’ve neglected the third word in this venerable motto: fraternity... The issue isn’t straining to uphold liberty: it’s working out what to do with people who won’t. The real challenge isn’t how to live: it’s how to live together.”

The Revd Dr Sam Wells (Radio 4 Thought for the Day, 9/1/2015)
Universities have a huge role to play in ‘how to live together’.