Notable Quotable 284

May 31, 2024

Everyone has doubts. Everyone freaks out about where they are in life. But that’s a good thing. You’re open to change and growth.

- Ari Eastman

Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide.

- Zig Ziglar

Nobody has any business to use the word “progress” unless he has a definite creed and a cast-iron code of morals. Nobody can be progressive without being doctrinal; I might almost say that nobody can be progressive without being infallible—at any rate, without believing in some infallibility. For progress by its very name indicates a direction; and the moment we are in the least doubtful about the direction, we become in the same degree doubtful about the progress. Never perhaps since the beginning of the world has there been an age that had less right to use the word “progress” than we.

- G.K. Chesterton

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

- Voltaire

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is to never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

- Jean-Paul Marat

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Meaning is disappearing from our lives. The amount of information being dumped on our heads is increasing exponentially. New technologies make primary sources more and more accessible, but this does not lead to an accumulation of knowledge. Not only has clarity not increased, but on the contrary, we understand the world around us less and less. This happens because the criteria of understanding have been lost, the instance in our consciousness, in our culture, in our society, which give life meaning, interprets reality, puts disparate facts into appropriate boxes, has disappeared. Westerners "killed God" according to Nietzsche, but along with him man himself disappeared as a reasonable, active being, as something vertical, capable of establishing clear guidelines and giving definite sense to the world. All they are left with is a meaningless mosaic of post-modernist culture, where the pathos of humanism has dried up and civilizational fatigue has accumulated, depriving life of meaning.

- A.G. Dugin

Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.

- Diane Nash

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

- Jim Rohn

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

- Sophocles

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

- Marcus Aurelius