Notable Quotable 313

Aug 05, 2024

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

- Aristotle

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: 'I am Who am.' The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: 'I am who am not.' Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.

- Fulton J. Sheen

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

- Epictetus

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

- Gerald Massey

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If any man’s money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.

- Lysander Spooner

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

- H. L. Mencken

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior...

because the battles we fight are on the inside.

- Socrates

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

- Aristotle

Since the fall, not merely of the hierarchic nature of society, but of almost all traditional forms, the consciously conservative man stands as it were in a vacuum. He stands alone in a world which, in its all opaque enslavement, boasts of being free, and, in all its crushing uniformity, boasts of being rich. It is screamed in his ears that humanity is continually developing upwards, that human nature, after developing for so and so many millions of years, has now undergone a decisive mutation, which will lead to its final victory over matter. The consciously conservative man stands alone amongst manifest drunks, is alone awake amongst sleep-walkers who take their dream for reality. From understanding and experience he knows that man, with all his passion for novelty, has remained fundamentally the same, for good or ill; the fundamental questions in human life have always remained the same...

- Titus Burckhardt