Kevin Holmes

“In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.
The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“The modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“It was not the great technocrats of Koenigsberg or Moscow who supplied the casualties in the siege of Stalingrad: it was superstitious Bavarian peasants and low-grade Russian agricultural workers. The effect of modern war is to eliminate retrogressive types, while sparing the technocracy and increasing its hold upon public affairs. In the new age, what has hitherto been merely the intellectual nucleus of the race is to become, by gradual stages, the race itself.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

“Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor so old to dote on her for anything. I have years on my back forty- eight.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear