Notable Quotable 42

Joel Walbert

Dec 14, 2022

Amor Fati - "Love Your Fate", which is in fact your life.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

We fall captive to the herd animal if we cannot reach the individual divinity in Ourselves.

- Carl Jung

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

- Thomas Merton

"The revolt against vows has been carried in our day even to the extent of a revolt against the typical vow of marriage. They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words — ‘free-love’ — as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word. Modern sages offer to the lover, with an ill-flavoured grin, the largest liberties and the fullest irresponsibility; but they do not respect him as the old Church respected him; they do not write his oath upon the heavens, as the record of his highest moment. They give him every liberty except the liberty to sell his liberty, which is the only one that he wants."

~G.K. Chesterton

This triangle of truisms; of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed. It can only destroy those civilisations which disregard it.

- G.K. Chesterton

Make war! Make war on your cowardice, your laziness, your ignorance, your pretention, your grief. Make war first and love will be given to you.

- Jean Cau

Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.

Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter, but darker.

- C.S. Lewis

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Just as there is a relationship of mind to body, so there is a relationship of the body to the earth.

- Carl Jung

Yet this I shall assert again (and by the occurrences in all History there is nothing more true) that men may second their fortune, not resist it and follow the order of her designs, but by no means defeat them: Nevertheless men are not wholly to abandon themselves, because they know not her end; for her ways being unknown and irregular, may possibly be at last for our good; so that we are always to hope the best, and that hope is to preserve us in whatever troubles or distresses we shall fall.

- Machiavelli (Discourses, Book II)