Notable Quotable 254

Apr 19, 2024

No past is ideal. But only from the past do ideals arise that are not lymphatic, ideals with blood in their veins.

- Nicolás Gómez Dávila

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it, and degraded without means to measure our descent.

- Richard Weaver

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular.

- Charles Baudelaire

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organisers are always good?

Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?

- Frederic Bastiat

There is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

- Miles Franklin

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For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

- Charles Dickens

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

- Milton Friedman

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.

- Jonathan Stroud

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

- Friedrich Nietzsche