“If a man relies wholly upon his private rational powers, he will lose his faith—and perhaps the world as well, risking his nature at the devil’s chess-game. But if a man fortifies himself with normative discipline, he draws upon the imagination and the lessons of the ages, and so is fit to confront even a diabolical adversary."

~Russell Kirk

"The only thing that matters today is the activity of those who can "ride the wave" and remain firm in their principles, unmoved by any concessions and indifferent to the fevers, the convulsions, the superstitions that characterize modern generations... Not letting oneself go is what is crucial today. In this society gone astray, one must be capable of the luxury of having a character."

~Julius Evola

"Your life on earth is narrowed everywhere. Everything betrays you: people, wealth, the pleasures of the senses, even your own body will abandon you. All the elements of nature deceive you. So, see to cleave only to God, for only He is love."

+Saint John of Kronstadt

“Modern mass culture, aimed at the “consumer”, the civilization of prosthetics, is crippling people’s souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.”

~Andrei Tarkovsky

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

~Leo Tolstoy

“Valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder, order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.”

~Niccolò Machiavelli

"All great art is praise; the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own."

~John Ruskin

"Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought."

~G.K. Chesterton

"A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and microphone of his own age."

~C.S. Lewis

'for in the age of technics the tendency is for creativeness to become dehumanised, for contrivance to usurp imagination, for the will towards shape to become almost indistinguishable from a mere will toward power. There is a deflection, a mass-deflection, from the proper “habit of art” towards forms which owe their existence and meaning to what they effect rather than to what they are. Power-extension and multiplication become the objectives, and the utile is the sole factor determining the forms, and the symbolic loses altogether its central and presiding position.' - David Jones

"Many of us long for the past because we believe, correctly, that the past uniquely offered something that satisfied a core human need—namely, the need for hope for something better and everlasting beyond this life, which communities steeped in religious tradition, in which faith formed the center of one’s life and permeated every aspect of it, were able to inspire. In short, this past provided the means by which man’s spiritual thirst could be quenched. The tragedy of the present condition consists not only in the fact that we are dying of this thirst, but also of our ignorance of the reason for—or even the fact of—our condition, as well as the truth that the cure lies within our own hearts, buried though it is beneath layers of selfish and worldly attachments."

~Dr. Amir Azarvan

"You should know that the Grace of God departs because of three things: pride, egotism and passions of the flesh."

~Gerondissa Makrina of Volos

"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues."

~John Locke

"The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left to work itself out to its extreme conclusion, one might expect to see the state transformed into an immense social machine, all the individual components of which are strictly limited to the performance of a definite and specialised function, where there could be no freedom because the machine could only work smoothly as long as every wheel and cog performed its task with unvarying regularity. Now the nearer modern society comes to the state of total organisation, the more difficult it is to find any place for spiritual freedom and personal responsibility. Education itself becomes an essential part of the machine, for the mind has to be as completely measured and controlled by the techniques of the scientific expert as the task which it is being trained to perform."

~Christopher Dawson

"We have the material conditions for world unity, but there is as yet no common moral order without which a true culture cannot exist. The entire modern world wears the same clothes, drives the same cars, and watches the same films, but it does not possess common ethical values or a sense of spiritual community or common religious beliefs. We have a long way ot go before such a spiritual community is conceivable, and meanwhile what we call modern civilization remains an area of conflict - a chaos of conflicting ideologies, institutions, and moral standards.[...] Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces."

~Christopher Dawson

“Unless men believe that they have an all-powerful ally outside time, they will inevitably abandon the ideal of a supernatural or anti-natural moral progress, and make the best of the world as they find it, conforming themselves to the law of self-interest and self-preservation which governs the rest of nature. And thus the philosophy of Progress, which had inspired such boundless hopes for the future of the human race, resulted in negation and disillusionment. The Cartesian Reason, which had entered so triumphantly on its career of explaining nature and man to itself by its own unaided power, ended in a kind of rational suicide by explaining itself away.”

~Christopher Dawson

"The universal hero myth always refers to a powerful man or god-man who vanquishes evil in the form of dragons, serpents, monsters, demons, and so on, and who liberates his people from destruction and death. The narration or ritual repetition of sacred texts and ceremonies, and the worship of such a figure with dances, music, hymns, prayers, and sacrifices, grip the audience with numinous emotions and exalt the individual to an identification with the hero."

~Carl Jung

"One could easily believe that philosophy or scientific knowledge is a maze that God built to trap and torture fools and punish our hubris."