Notable Quotable 245

Apr 08, 2024

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

- G.K. Chesterton

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

- William Blake

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

- Mark Twain

Traditions are answers that have been discovered to enduring questions.

- Roger Scruton

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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

- T.S. Eliot

The person who lives in the ethical sphere lives intentionally, intensively. Such a person possesses character and conviction, and is thus willing to sacrifice himself for something greater than oneself.

- Søren Kierkegaard

Many love knowledge, even theological knowledge, on account of the intellectual joy they experience and because they wish to be called masters, without, sufficiently loving God himself, who is to be known in theology.

- Fr. Garrigou Lagrange O.P., On Divine Revelation, 1, 1, 5C

If we accept the principle of social planning from the bottom upwards without regard for spiritual values we are left with a machine-made culture which differs from one country to another only in so far as the process of mechanization is more or less perfected. To most people this is rather an appalling prospect, for the ordinary man does not regard the rationalization of life as the only good. On the contrary, men are often more attracted by the variety of life than by its rationality. Even if it were possible to solve all the material problems of life: poverty, unemployment and war and to construct a uniform scientifically-organized world order, neither the strongest nor the highest elements in human nature would find satisfaction in it.

- Christopher Dawson