Notable Quotable #38

Nov 26, 2022

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognised, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

- Joseph Campbell

He who is not angry, whereas he has cause to be, sins. For unreasonable patience is the hotbed of many vices. It fosters negligence and incites not only the wicked, but the good to do wrong.

- John Chrysostom

The battle for the soul is as brutal as the battles of men.

- Arthur Rimbaud

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

- Noam Chomsky

Make your soul the hearth of a roaring flame, and around you others will see it in your eyes, and begin to think you worthy.

- Thomas Barghest

"It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants."

~Alexis de Tocqueville

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."

~H.L. Mencken

Beauty reminds us that we are more than mere matter, and that we long for meaning outside ourselves. That is why modernity hates it.

- Dean Abbott

If I see a man with a good brain who won't get down and dig, who won't master fundamentals, I cannot help but pity him.

- Jack London

Traditions are answers that have been discovered to enduring questions.

- Sir Roger Scruton