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"We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us."
Winston Churchill
(Stop scrolling and really look at this painting! Amazing)
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy
(hint: it's a sincere devotion to God)
Your monthly reminder:
“When I was a Revolutionary Marxist, we were all in favour of as much immigration as possible. It wasn’t because we liked immigrants, but because we didn’t like Britain.”
— Peter Hitchens
"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."
— Carl Sandburg
"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."
— Thomas Paine
"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."
— Thomas Carlyle
"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."
— Owen Feltham
The Knowledge Archivist retweeted
Evil detests beauty because beauty is proof of a transcendental order, of objective Goodness and Truth.
To attack beauty is to wage war against the possibility of transcendence.
Beauty is a great affront to nihilism. It testifies to that which is greater than the individual, because to create a beautiful thing is to acknowledge that you are answerable to standards higher than your own. Beauty is often called a great evangelist for this reason.
This is why they outright destroy beauty or try to subvert your perception of it by promoting ugliness or triviality. Beauty is neither neutral nor trivial — your ability to discern the beautiful from the ugly is intimately connected to your capacity to recognize the divine.
Dietrich von Hildebrand once declared that "beauty is the archenemy of mediocrity." Why?
Beauty elevates a person toward truth, goodness, and the divine. The antitheses to beauty drag the soul down into nihilism and worship of the self.
"Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home."
— Henry Drummond
"When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less."
— C.S. Lewis
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I hold to faith in the divine love — which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ — as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Actually kind of poetic from Nikola Tesla here...
"What has the future in store for this strange being, born of a breath, of perishable tissue, yet Immortal, with his powers fearful and Divine?"
"One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian."
— Fulton Sheen
Chesterton and Belloc were such good friends, that people would refer to them as the “Chesterbelloc” lol
