Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.
Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the anc… - Richard M. Weaver
Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the anc…
- Richard M. Weaver
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… - Richard M. Weaver
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…
When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in… - Richard M. Weaver
When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in…
No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future. - Richard M. Weaver
No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.
The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their app… - Richard M. Weaver
The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their app…
The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive … - Richard M. Weaver
The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive …
We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent. - Richard M. Weaver
We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.
It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of norma… - Richard M. Weaver
It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of norma…
Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. - Richard M. Weaver
Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.
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