"The world is miserable because men live beneath themselves; the error of modern man is that he wants to reform the world without having either the will or the power to reform man, and this flagrant contradiction, this attempt to make a better world on the basis of a worsened humanity, can only end in the very abolition of what is human, and therefore the abolition of happiness too. Reforming man means binding him again to Heaven, reestablishing the broken link; it means tearing him away from the reign of the passions, from the cult of matter, quantity, and cunning, and reintegrating him into the world of the spirit and serenity, we would even say: into the world of sufficient reason."

~Frithjof Schuon

"Wisdom, humility, caution, moderation, justice, mercy, discretion, constancy, benevolence, chastity and temperance. With these anchors you should fix in God the cable so that it will hold the ship of your mind.”

+Saint Augustine

„It is likely… that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves."

~Richard M. Weaver

“Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.”

~G.K. Chesterton

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good in others."

~Plato

"The whole law of human existence consists in nothing other than a man's always being able to bow before the immeasurably great. If people are deprived of the immeasurably great, they will not live and will die in despair."

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Evil always takes advantage of ambiguity."

~G.K. Chesterton

“If we want something to endure, we strive for beauty, not for efficiency.”

~Nicolás Gómez Dávila

"There are wolves hiding in the gray flock; characters who still know what freedom is. This is a ruler's worst nightmare."

~Ernst Jünger

"Man created in the divine image, the protagonist of a great drama in which his soul was at stake, was replaced by man the wealth seeking and consuming animal.“

~Richard M. Weaver

“It is in the irony of Providence that the more man comes to control the material world about him, the more does he lose control over the effects of his action; and it is when he is remaking the world most speedily that he knows least whither he is driving.”

~Hilaire Belloc

"No large scale society has ever held together for long without a religion."

~Bruce Carlton

"No lasting civilisation will ever be founded upon philosophical and social ideologies."

~Alexis Carrel

The heroic quality rejoices in the struggles by which its virtue is approved, and glories in the triumph with which it is finally adorned. — B.M. Palmer

"A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery."

~C.S. Lewis

“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”

~C.S. Lewis

"There are two ways of getting home; one of them is to stay there. The other one is to walk around the whole world til we come back to the same place."

~G.K. Chesterton

"The end of our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time."

~T.S. Eliot

"The doctrinal intolerance of the Church has saved the world from chaos. Her doctrinal intolerance has placed beyond question political, domestic, social, and religious, truths—primitive and holy truths, which are not subject to discussion, because they are the foundation of all discussions; truths which cannot be called into doubt for a moment without the understanding on that moment oscillating, lost between truth and error, and the clear mirror of human reason becoming soiled and obscured…"

~Juan Donoso Cortés

"There is ground for declaring that modern man has become a moral idiot. So few are those who care to examine their lives, or to accept the rebuke which comes of admitting that our present state might be a fallen state... For four centuries every man has been not only his own priest but his own professor of ethics, and the consequence is an anarchy that threatens even that minimum consensus of values necessary for a political state."

~Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

"When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility."

"Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice."

~Neil Postman

"These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own."

~G.K. Chesterton