Notable Quotable 44
The modern man is no longer a unity, but a confused bundle of complexes and nerves. He is so dissociated, so alienated from himself that he sees himself less as a personality than as a battlefield where a civil war rages between a thousand and one conflicting loyalties. There is no single overall purpose in his life. His soul is comparable to a menagerie in which a number of beasts, each seeking its own prey, turn one upon the other. Or he may be likened to a radio, that is tuned in to several stations; instead of getting any one clearly, it receives only an annoying static.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Architecture is frozen music.
- Goethe
If you get the message, hang up. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes and telephones.
The biologist does not sit with his eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.
- Alan Watts
Those who cannot face danger like men are the slaves to any invader.
- Aristotle
Modern man does not expel God in order to assume responsibility for the world. But in order to not to have to assume responsibility.
- Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you. What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
- Flannery O'Connor
The fragments of the past that survive embarrass the modern landscape in which they stand out.
- Nicolás Gómez Dávila
One of the leading principles on which the commonwealth and the laws are consecrated, is lest the temporary possessors and life-renters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity, should act as if they were the entire masters; that they should not think it amongst their rights to cut off the entail, or commit waste on the inheritance, by destroying at their pleasure the whole original fabric of their society; hazarding to leave to those who come after them, a ruin instead of an habitation—and teaching these successors as little to respect their contrivances, as they had themselves respected the institutions of their forefathers. By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. Not one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of summer.
- Edmund Burke
What the herd hates the most,
is the one who thinks differently;
it is not so much the opinion itself
but the audacity
to want to think for oneself!
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If you study science deep and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.
- Lord William Kelvin
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