Notable Quotable 379

Feb 10, 2025

It takes a lot of courage to be yourself.

- Edward Cummings

The quest for community will not be denied, for it springs from some of the powerful needs of human nature—needs for a clear sense of cultural purpose, membership, status, and continuity.

- Robert Nisbet

Take the greatest number of risks. Everything on a map. Always prefer the generosity of danger to the worst form of greed in the world: prudence.

- Jean-René Huguenin

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

- Henry David Thoreau

In an age of pell-mell ‘progress’ to annihilation, tradition is the hero on the white horse.

- Peter Kreeft

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In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

- John Milton

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

- G.K. Chesterton

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

- C.G. Jung

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

- Charles Dickens

The God-fearing person does not love what the world loves, but then what is left — God and himself. The world takes God away, and therefore the God-fearing person loves himself. The world regards the fear of God as self-love. It is also self-love to be unwilling to deify the world and contemporary opinion, to want to maintain (as every human being ought to) that one's ultimate judgment and ultimate responsibility are to God.

- Søren Kierkegaard