Notable Quotable 179

Joel Walbert

Jan 05, 2024

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Each day it becomes easier to know what we ought to despise: what modern man admires and journalism praises.

- Nicolás Gómez Davilá

Many men talk like philosophers and act like fools.

- Philip K. Dick

The ordinary waking consciousness is a very useful, and on occasion, an indispensable state of mind; but it is by no means the only state of consciousness.

Insofar as he transcends his normal self and his ordinary mode of awareness, the mystic is able to enlarge his vision, to look more deeply into the unfathomable miracle of existence.

- Aldous Huxley

The State doesn't actually exist. It's just a group of individuals in costumes, listening to other people in costumes, committing massive crimes.

- Jeff Berwick

Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.

Once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future - falls into place.

- James Burnham

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Autumn is a second spring, when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus

I’m sure that science can’t ever explain everything and I can give you the reasons for that decision...

… I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties; that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with.

That, I think is the secret of the universe.

- Isaac Asimov

Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you.

- Flannery O'Conner

History often resembles myth because they are ultimately of the same stuff.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle