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Anthony Esolen

(1959) Writer

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Anthony Esolen is a writer.

Quick Facts About Anthony Esolen

Born: January 1, 1959
Profession: Writer

About Anthony Esolen

[Wikidata] American academic (b. 1959)... | [Wikipedia] Anthony M. Esolen is a writer, social commentator, translator of classical poetry, and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Thales College, having been invited to join the faculty in 2023. He previously taught at Furman University, Providence College, Thomas More College of Liberal Arts and Magd

Quotes by Anthony Esolen

“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are…

Childlikeness

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“The past is dangerous, not least because it cannot go away. It is simply there , never to change, and in its…

History

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“How silly were the idolaters of old, who knelt before the clumsy wooden figurines of their own making! We are wiser now.…

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“...friendship stands as a small affront to the total control of all things by mass entertainment and mass media and mass education…

Education

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“Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up.…

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“We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as…

Compassion

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“The lie rushes in to fill up the void left by truth in retreat. When people lose their faith in God, for…

Faith

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“For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no…

Asylum

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“It's rather the possibility of friendship, unencumbered by feelings of attraction or shyness; the possibility of working on the same wavelength, as…

Art

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“For in those days I had no idea that many of the greatest books are like a forest, and that the best…

Books

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“And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity.…

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“To be free is not to live in no place and at no time but to live in one place as in…

Freedom

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“The love of the married man and woman is not a private romance, but a recapitulation of the love that brought them…

First place

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“The imagination opens out not principally to what it knows and finds familiar, but to what it does not know, what it…

Every morning

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“Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into…

Books

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