Notable Quotable 195

Jan 29, 2024

The disappearance of any minimal consensus about aesthetic value means that in this field confusion reigns and will continue to reign for a long time, since it is now not possible to discern with any degree of objectivity what it is to have talent or to lack talent, what is beautiful and what is ugly, what work represents something new and durable and what is just a will-o’-the-wisp.

- Mario Vargas Llosa

The big, blazing, terrible truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.

- Peter Kreeft

There is no fulfillment of man’s true vocation in the order of nature. Man was made for more truth than he can see with his own unaided intelligence, and for more love than his will alone can achieve and for a higher moral activity than human prudence ever planned.

- Thomas Merton

When the single basis of the State is control and violence, which is always and forever the case, the essence of its people’s existence is slavery. No one needs government, as all government and rule is corrupt and evil, and the very idea that people need to be controlled in every aspect of their being by what are referred to as State-created ‘laws,’ is the epitome of immorality, and an afront to liberty.

- Gary D. Barnett

You can live a whole life time never being awake.

- Dan Millman

If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things that you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things that you don’t like doing, which is stupid.

- Alan Watts

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When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.

- Neal Postman

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

- William Faulkner

There is a thought in your mind right now. The longer you hold on to it, the more you dwell upon it, the more life you give to that thought. Give it enough life, and it will become real. So make sure the thought is indeed a great one.

- Ralph Marston

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

- Helen Keller

I get asked quite often if I'm an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that's fine. What is most important to me is to live in a world that is not being murdered.

- Derrick Jensen