Notable Quotable 131

Oct 24, 2023

Truly it is my honour and my glory, my joy and my crown that the world holds us in great scorn, and that everyone distains us.

- Douceline de Digne

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

- Blaise Pascal

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

- Ludwig von Mises

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

- Ted Nelson

It is well enough that the people do not understand our banking and monitory system, for if they did, I believe there would be revolution before tomorrow morning.

- Henry Ford

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things, and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

- Virgil

Distrust in the government is no cause for suspicion.

- Burt Gummer

In a revolutionary epoch, sometimes men taste every novelty, sicken of them all, and return to ancient principles so long disused that they seem refreshingly hearty when they are rediscovered.

- Russell Kirk