Notable Quotable 381

Joel Walbert

Feb 17, 2025

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politicians need human misery...

Government's a disease masquerading as it's own cure.

- L. Neil Smith

The producers and promoters of modern art form a veritable mafia that is made up of an international network of art galleries, museums, universities, critics and auction houses. Governments at the national and provincial levels also support this genre by subsidizing artists and related exhibitions, thus contributing to the distortion and imbalance of the masses. Art should elevate people's feelings, arousing in them appreciation and admiration for the beauty of classical forms and noble deeds. The so-called modern or contemporary art is nothing more than the manifestation of an unbalanced society uprooted from nature by the pretentious and perverse intellectuals of Gramscian formation who control the media and the educational system of our decadent society. So, it is used as a weapon of cultural degradation. The awareness of this is the duty of every good citizen and every lover of beauty and dignity.

- Claudio Lombardo

Of what avail is any amount of well-being, if at the same time, we steadily render the world more vulgar, uglier, noisier, and drearier and if we lose the moral and spiritual foundations of their existence? Man simply does not live by radio, automobiles, and refrigerators alone, but by the whole unpurchasable world beyond the market and turnover figures, the world of dignity, beauty, poetry, grace, chivalry, love, and friendship, the world of community, variety of life, freedom, and fullness of personality.

- Wilhelm Röpke

With no significant political forces opposing the conversion of our world into a universal marketplace, the conflict of our time is the struggle to retain one’s humanity in an increasingly artificial world. That is the only battle that retains any genuine significance from a traditional perspective.

- Julius Evola

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting—a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Only those who secretly propagate the admiration of beauty conspire effectively against today’s world.

- Nicolás Gómez Dávila

I tried to be some ten minutes in advance of the truth. And I found that I was eighteen hundred years behind it.

- G.K. Chesterton

For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead.

- Hermann Hesse

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

- John Burroughs

It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government, etc. exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes? The homemaker’s job is one for which all other’s exist.

- C.S. Lewis