“All of which underlines a point that is worth restating: like energy, we cannot remove authority; we can only move it elsewhere. The attempts by Rousseau and his ideological successors to remove or lessen the influence of parents and teachers in the hope that children would grow up more ‘authentically’ was, at best, desperately naïve. It simply gave way to other new and untested authorities, the influence of which is only now starting to come in to view.”
― Michaela: The Power of Culture
― Michaela: The Power of Culture
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
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“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”
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“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being...
This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler.”
― The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler.”
― The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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