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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
    tags: christ, christianity, desire, god, heart, jesus, longing, peace, religion, rest, restlessness
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    Pope Benedict XVI
    “The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness”
    ― Pope Benedict XVI
    tags: catholic, comfort, faith, greatness
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo
    tags: catholic, catholic-author, catholicism, truth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Complete Letters, 1868-1871
    tags: christ, truth
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Pope Benedict XVI
    “Truth is not determined by a majority vote.”
    ― Pope Benedict XVI
    tags: cardinal-ratzinger, joseph-ratzinger, pope-benedict-xvi
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    John Henry Newman
    “To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.”
    ― John Henry Newman
    tags: anglicanism, catholicism
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    Léon Bloy
    “There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.”
    ― Léon Bloy, The Woman Who Was Poor
    tags: catholic-author, catholicism, christianity, fiction, leon-bloy, life, religion, saints
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    Pope John Paul II
    “Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.”
    ― Pope John Paul II
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “To believe in God is to see that life has meaning”
    ― Wittgenstein Ludwig Wittgenstein
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    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    ― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
    tags: philosophy, wayfinding
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
    tags: catholic, politics, religion, tradition
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: modern-values, modernity, post-modern, post-modernism, values, values-in-life
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
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    Nicolás Gómez Dávila
    “Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.”
    ― Nicolás Gómez Dávila
    tags: heaven, hell, hierarchy
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    Nicolás Gómez Dávila
    “I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.”
    ― Nicolás Gómez Dávila
    tags: ideology, modernity, philosophy
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    Nicolás Gómez Dávila
    “An irreligious society cannot endure the truth of the human condition.
    It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be.”
    ― Nicolás Gómez Dávila
    tags: self-deception
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    René Guénon
    “We cannot help noticing that, like all propagandists, the apostles of tolerance, truth to tell, are very often the most intolerant of men.”
    ― René Guénon, East and West
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    “The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.”
    ― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future
    tags: change, conservatism, conservative, culture, democrat, economy, inconsistency, individual, industrialization, liberal, popular-culture, progressivism, reform, republican, society, technology, tradition, traditional, traditional-values
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    Joseph de Maistre
    “Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.”
    ― Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
    tags: altar, civilization, divine, order, religion, sacrifice
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    Bernard of Clairvaux
    “What I know of the divine sciences and the Holy Scriptures, I have learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.”
    ― St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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    Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
    “For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.”
    ― Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
    tags: french-revolution, monarchy, world-war-i, world-war-ii
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    Seraphim Rose
    “Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God.… Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ.”
    ― Seraphim Rose, Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
    tags: athiesm, christ, nihilism, orthodoxy, religion
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “A divine 'punishment’ is also a divine 'gift’, if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessing, and the supreme inventiveness of the Creator will make 'punishments’ (that is changes of design) produce a good not otherwise to be attained”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
    tags: vices
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
    ― St. Thomas Aquinas
    tags: agnosticism, aquinas, atheism, faith
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    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
    4494 likes

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    Joseph de Maistre
    “Every country has the government it deserves.”
    ― Joseph de Maistre
    tags: philosophy, politics
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    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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