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• Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
• In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing…
• Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until…
• The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to…
• No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.
• The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
• The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that…
• Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of…
• The typical modern has the look of the hunted.
• Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate…
• The hero can never be a relativist.
• The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the…

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