Notable Quotable 167

Joel Walbert

Dec 19, 2023

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It is evident we are to consider our peculiar situations, and in these to do all the good we can.

- William Wilberforce

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

- Dante Alighieri

The condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. For other living things to be ignorant of themselves, is natural; but for man it is a defect.

- Boethius

The problem creates the solution. What stands in the way becomes the way.

- Marcus Aurelius

There is an essential bond between human freedom and truth, so that freedom which refused to be bound to the truth would fall into arbitrariness and end up submitting itself to the vilest of passions, to the point of self-destruction.

- Pope Leo XIII

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We are the last. Almost the ones after the last. Immediately after us begins the world we call, which we have called, which we shall not cease calling, the modern world. The world that tries to be clever. The world of the intelligent, of the advanced, of those who know, who don't have to be shown a thing twice, who have nothing more to learn. That is to say: the world of those who believe in nothing.

- Charles Peguy

Divorce takes all authority from the father, all dignity from the mother, all security from the child, and transforms domestic society into a struggle between strength and weakness; it constitutes the family as a temporary lease, where the inconstancy of the human heart stipulates its passions, and which ends where new passions begin.

- Louis de Bonald

When a man walks in the fear of God he knows no fear, even if he were to be surrounded by wicked men. He has the fear of God within him and wears the invincible armor of faith. This makes him strong and able to take on anything, even things which seem difficult or impossible to most people.

- St. Symeon the New Theologian

It is not that they cannot see the solution. It is that they cannot see the problem.

- G.K. Chesterton

There is only one inborn erroneous notion, that we exist in order to be happy. So long as we persist in this inborn error, the world will seem full of contradictions.

- Arthur Schopenhauer