The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set forth in Pindar's second Olympian: after three or six lives in which a man has lived with strict justice and perfect integrity, he passes beyond the tower of Cronus to the fair realm that cannot be reached by land or sea, where gentle breezes from a placid ocean blow forever on the fields of asphodel. For a description, see Pindar. If the beauty of great poetry can commend a religion, here you have it.
American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight. - Revilo P. Oliver
American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.
- Revilo P. Oliver
History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to th… - Revilo P. Oliver
History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to th…
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realit… - Revilo P. Oliver
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realit…
Now I admit that the notion of a warless world is a pleasant and attractive thought. But people who believe that there can be such a thing should ask… - Revilo P. Oliver
Now I admit that the notion of a warless world is a pleasant and attractive thought. But people who believe that there can be such a thing should ask…
When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and always will be, and the hand… - Revilo P. Oliver
When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and always will be, and the hand…
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set… - Revilo P. Oliver
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set…
It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and mu… - Revilo P. Oliver
It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and mu…
As late as the summer of 1941, the Atlantic Monthly, then a still respected magazine for literates and edited by White men, published a long article … - Revilo P. Oliver
As late as the summer of 1941, the Atlantic Monthly, then a still respected magazine for literates and edited by White men, published a long article …
Every campus, of course, also has its rabble of young "liberals," who are forever making a din as they "demonstrate" for "world peash," "snivel right… - Revilo P. Oliver
Every campus, of course, also has its rabble of young "liberals," who are forever making a din as they "demonstrate" for "world peash," "snivel right…
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