Notable Quotable 337

Joel Walbert

Oct 28, 2024

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We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what appears before them.

- Thomas Huxley

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science.

In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

- Phillip E. Johnson

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

- Saint Augustine

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

- Ezra Pound

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

- John Muir

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Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.

- G.K. Chesterton

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

- Plato

The pure in heart shall see God, because they always do His will. Purity does not begin in the body but in the will. From there it flows outward, cleansing thought, imagination, and, finally, the body. Bodily purity is a repercussion or echo of the will. Life is impure only when the will is impure.

- Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

- Epictetus