Notable Quotable 328

Sep 30, 2024

Man must see things according to the spirit of the Creator, not with the superficial, profane and desacralizing view of the vulgar soul. The noble man feels the need to admire, to venerate, to worship; the vile man on the contrary tends to belittle, even to mock, which is the way the devil sees things; but it is also diabolical to admire what is evil, whereas it is normal and praiseworthy to despise evil as such, for the truth has precedence over everything... The definition of man according to immortality has precedence over the definition of man according to earthly life. The noble man respects, admires and loves in virtue of an essence that he perceives, whereas the vile man underestimates or scorns in virtue of an accident; the sense of the sacred is opposed to the instinct to belittle; the Bible speaks of ‘mockers.’ The sense of the sacred is the essence of all legitimate respect.

- Frithjof Schuon

Because people want more and more possessions, they start wanting more money, and thus honor money more and excellence less. Accordingly, the wealthy become more honored, and the people of excellence less honored. With the majority now money-loving businessmen instead of lovers of victory and honor, the admirable rich men will be put into office, and the poor will be dishonored.

- Plato

Only those who have learned the art of removing their eyes from the dazzling light of common opinions and closing their ears to the noise of fleeting slogans can regain what is essential.

- Carl Jung

Knowing others is intelligence;

knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Mastering others is strength;

mastering yourself is true power.

- Tao Te Ching, Verse 33

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

- Socrates

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The Christian principles are self-sacrifice, humility, asceticism and the promise of afterlife. The soft Satanism of our age inverts these principles, making egotism, pride, hedonism and a obsession with our success in this world triumphant. Because of liberalism, materialism and overall decadence we can see how our cultural establishment promotes mostly some of the worst people, like millionaires and gangsters; makes them glamorous in appearance while in reality they're all cunning greedy devils. At least in the past, our governments promoted saints, men of culture, both true heroes and heroes of legend, and the common people knew to differentiate a good man from a bad man. Now all that seems to be lost because of the immense propaganda and absence of censorship. This vile culture and the loss of moral sense is perhaps the most dangerous thing of our day.

- Alex Thompson

The peaceful warrior's greatest battles don't lie in the external world, but within us.

- Dan Millman

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

- Alan Moore

The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth.

- Terence McKenna

If there is a state, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the state without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the state.

- Mikhail Bakunin