"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

"Place people in sight of the pyramids of Egypt, and they will tell you, “Here has passed a grand and barbarous civilisation.” Place them in sight of the Grecian statues and temples, and they will tell you, “Here has passed a graceful, ephemeral, and brilliant civilisation.” Place them in sight of a Roman monument, and they will tell you, “Here has passed a great people.” Place them in sight of a cathedral, and on beholding such majesty united to such beauty, such grandeur to such taste, such grace to such delicacy, such severe unity to such rich variety, such measure to such boldness, such heaviness in the stones, with such suavity in their outlines, and such wonderful harmony between silence and light, shade and colour, they will tell you..."

"Here has passed the greatest people of history, and the most astounding of human civilisations: that people must have taken grandeur from the Egyptian, brilliancy from the Greek, strength from the Roman, and, beyond the strength, the brilliancy, and grandeur, something more valuable than grandeur, strength, and brilliancy—immortality and perfection."

~Juan Donoso Cortes

“The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own states into proper order. Before putting their states into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were.”

~Confucius

“Science alone is untrue because it aims exclusively at truth—divorced from the good and the beautiful. The scientific mind is far too simple. There are too many facts in too mysterious a relationship for his simple mind—logical analytical as it is—to grasp. In theory he is right; in practice he can never get all the facts as long as he specializes exclusively in the nature of discursive reason. For knowledge—as distinct from wisdom and plastic form—of its very nature excludes all facts.”

~Carl Schmitt