Charles

“The socialist who is a christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The decline of community life suggests that in the future, we risk becoming secure and self-absorbed last men, devoid of thymotic striving for higher goals in our pursuit of private comforts. But the opposite danger exists as well, namely, that we will return to being first men engaged in bloody and pointless prestige battles, only this time with modern weapons. Indeed, the two problems are related to one another, for the absence of regular and constructive outlets for megalothymia may simply lead to its later resurgence in an extreme and pathological form.”
― Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.”
― Clive Staples Lewis, Till We Have Faces