Notable Quotable 357

Joel Walbert

Dec 13, 2024

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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

- Bertrand Russell

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

- George Bernard Shaw

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

- Baltasar Gracian

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

- Dante Alighieri

We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom can take the world out of the man. As long as the human being is obsessed by worldliness, he will suffer from the Karmic consequences of false allegiances.

When however, worldliness is transmuted into Spiritual Integrity he is free, even though he still dwells physically among worldly things.

- Manly Hall

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Circumstances are rulers of the weak; they are but instruments of the wise.

- Samuel Lover

Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.

- Jean-Luc Godard

At one of our dinners, Milton Friedman recalled travelling to an Asian country in the 1960s and visiting a worksite. He was shocked to see that, instead of earth movers, the workers had shovels.

He asked why there were so few machines. The government bureaucrat explained "You don't understand, this is a jobs program", to which Friedman replied "Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, you should have given them spoons, not shovels".

- Stephen Moore

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function.

We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings to be fruitful.

- C.S. Lewis

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky