morality Archives | David S. Hogsette, PhD

A Thought from C. S. Lewis

January 30, 2012June 3, 2019 David HogsetteJust Thinking

I have known only one person in my life who claimed to have seen a ghost. It was a woman; and the interesting thing is that she disbelieved in the immortality of the soul before seeing the ghost and still…

A Thought from Viktor Frankl

January 29, 2012June 3, 2019 David HogsetteJust Thinking

If we present man with a concept of man which is not true, we may well corrupt him. When we present him as an automation of reflexes, as a mind machine, as a bundle of instincts, as a pawn of…

A Thought from G. K. Chesterton

January 29, 2012June 3, 2019 David HogsetteJust Thinking

And the fact that [the revolutionist] doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces,…

A Thought from Blaise Pascal

January 29, 2012June 3, 2019 David HogsetteJust Thinking

It is in vain, O men, that you seek within yourselves the remedy for your ills. All your light can only reach the knowledge that not in yourselves will you find truth or good. The philosophers have promised you that,…