Notable Quotable 43

Dec 15, 2022

Intellectual sovereignty means reading the news furtively, but old books proudly, rather than the other way around.

- Mark Yuray

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the ‘wisdom’ of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, selfdiscipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.”

- C.S. Lewis

Within that household the human spirit has roof and hearth. Outside is night.

- Hilaire Belloc

Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order.

- Nicolás Gómez Dávila

We need to understand the world in a radically old way.

- E.V. Walter

God is a consuming fire. He alone can refine us like gold, and separate us from the slag and dross of our selfish individualities to fuse us into this wholeness of perfect unity that will reflect His own Triune Life forever. As long as we do not permit His love to consume us entirely and to unite us in Himself, the gold that is in us will be hidden by the rock and dirt which keep us separate from one another. As long as we are not purified by the love of God and transformed into Him in the union of pure sanctity, we will remain apart from one another, opposed to one another, and union among us will be a precarious and painful thing, full of labor and sorrow and without lasting cohesion.

- Thomas Merton

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

- Julius Evola

The unwritten and unchanging laws of heaven, They are not of today or yesterday; but ever live, and no-one knows their birthtide.

- Sophocles, Antigone

Myth is the means by which the traditional world expressed the ultimate significance of being.

- Julius Evola