The Enlightenment and Democracy are dead.
For better or worse, we in the modern West are all children of the Enlightenment in one way or another, and any wholesale abandonment of democratic institutions must seem an unrealistic proposal to the honest observer. —Matthew Pheneger
Actually, the Enlightenment is dead, and democracy had been abandoned, especially (in the United States) by Democrats.
The first step of wisdom is to admit, with good humor, that our ideas have no reason to interest anybody. —Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Two Articles on Nicolás Gómez Dávila: waisberg.micro.blog/2023/09/0…
… the professoriate of the better universities, which ‘was predominantly Liberal and Leftist, many of them Henry Wallace voters’. John P. McCarthy
Was it John Herman Randall, Jr., who told a Columbia philosophy class in 1968 that the last presidential candidate worth voting for was Henry Wallace?
O+A in Albany and Santorini
More by Nicolás Gómez Dávila: waisberg.micro.blog/2023/09/0…
Georg Brandes on Why we should read, What we should read, and How we should read. micro.blog/LeoWong/2…
Go and make disciples of all nations. Baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Sc. 98, Matthew 28:19
Evangelizing brings the Good News, proselytism aims at conversion. Christ commands the Church to make the nations Christian.
It is better to rise during the Great Amen and to kneel during the Agnes Dei.
“How can a man be reborn when he is old? Can he go back in his mother’s womb and be born again?”
“You must be reborn.”
Do the TLM.
Arvind Datar, The origins of “Justice must be seen to be done”
Georg Brandes, "On Reading"
The simplest experience of the world proves that a work of great excellence which deeply moves one person leaves another untouched, and that a book which has influenced one strongly in his youth loses this influence in later years. There is practically nothing that everyone can read at every time. —Georg Brandes, “On Reading”
Belloc, "Ten Pages of Taine"
No increase of the field external to man could transform what was intimate to man within. The frontiers of his nature remained fixed. So far from the temptation to convince by false testimony or to achieve fame by a trick being eliminated, it has received but additional opportunity from the singular progress of the modem world. —Hilaire Belloc, “Ten Pages of Taine”
It was the first time that any of us young men had come across this fairly common sight of a man who took things within for things without; some of us were frightened, and all of us wished to be rid of the place and to get away. —Hilaire Belloc, “The End of the World”
The term “life” is not exactly a clear and distinct idea. —Jacques Barzun
This is obviously untrue and less obviously true.
This way to Albany.
Antiparos
You speak for the pope and not God. —after Sc. 53, Matthew 16:23, Mark 8:33
Freedom cannot be defined as politicians taking things away from citizens.