Notable Quotable 54

Joel Walbert

Feb 14, 2023

No benefit is more constant than simplicity, no happiness more constant than peace.

- Han Fei

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

- Goethe

We find ourselves in a world of ruins—we should not forget this. And just how much may still be saved depends only on the existence or lack of men who are still capable of standing among these ruins, not in order to dictate any formulas, but to serve as examplars; not by pandering to demagogy and the materialism of the masses, but in such a way as to reawaken different forms of sensibility and interest.”

~Julius Evola

Now... at the height of modern progress, we behold unprecedented outbreaks of hatred and violence; we have seen whole nations desolated by war and turned into penal camps by their conquerors; we find half of mankind looking upon the other half as criminal. Everywhere occur symptoms of mass psychosis. Most portentous of all, there appear diverging bases of value, so that our single planetary globe is mocked by worlds of different understanding. These signs of disintegration arouse fear, and fear leads to desperate unilateral efforts toward survival, which only forward the process...

- Richard M. Weaver

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the Earth - the very thing the whole story has been about.

- C.S. Lewis

See the Creator of man made man in order that he who governs the world of the stars might suck milk, that bread might be hungry, that the fount might be thirsty, that light might go to sleep, that the way might be tired by the trip, that Truth might be accused by false witnesses, and that the judge of the living and the dead might be examined by a temporal judge and that justice might be condemned by the unjust. That discipline might be lashed by a whip, that the bunch of grapes might be crowned with thorns, that the foundation stone might be hung on a tree, that virtue might become weak, health wounded, and life itself might die.

- Saint Augustine

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I become free to be myself.

- Martin Heidegger

When dealing with people remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

- Dale Carnagie

Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.

- Marcus Aurelius