Notable Quotable #33

Nov 06, 2022

“It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.”

–Murray Rothbard

"If you knew how quickly people would forget you after your death, you would not seek in your life to please anyone but God."

— St. John Chrysostom

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

- Henry David Thoreau

If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere.

- Hermes Trismigestus

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

- Ludwig von Mises

“In fact, all that deserves to be said - and by that I mean all the words capable of nourishing the inner silence of man and of directing him towards the untranslatable mystery of his origin and of his end - has been proclaimed and repeated a thousand times over the centuries before us.”

~Gustave Thibon

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

- Carl Sagan

"Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

~C.S. Lewis

"The need for ceaseless agitation, for unending change, and for ever-increasing speed is matching the speed with which events themselves succeed one another. It is a dispersion in a multiplicity that is no longer unified by consciousness of any higher principle; in daily life, as in scientific ideas, it is analysis driven to an extreme, endless subdivision, a veritable disintegration of human activity in all the orders in which this can still be exercised... These are the inevitable results of an ever more pronounced materialization, for matter is essentially multiplicity and division, and this is why all that proceeds from matter can beget only strife and all manner of conflicts between peoples as between individuals. The deeper one sinks into matter, the more the elements of division and opposition gain force and scope; and, contrariwise, the more one rises toward pure spirituality, the nearer one approaches that unity which can only be fully realized by consciousness of universal principles."

~René Guénon

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.

- Carl Jung

Heaven and hell, and all the gods are within us.

- Joseph Campbell

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

- Carl Jung

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