Notable Quotable 350

Joel Walbert

Nov 28, 2024

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The magic you're looking for is in the work you're avoiding.

- Chris Williamson

The press today is an army with carefully organised weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers.

The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

- Oswald Spengler

Civilisation is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilisation would die, and we should be savages again.

- Will Durant

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

- Isaac Newton

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever.

Take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

- St. Augustine

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are.

Our first duty is to clear away the illusions and recover a sense of reality.

- Nicolas Berdyaev

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

- Robert D. Hare

The one who does the most to avoid suffering, in the end, is the one who suffers the most.

- Thomas Merton