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“I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.”
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“Heidegger (who eventually joined the Nazi party himself), called this “the unconditional dominion of subjectivity.”19 Without God—without some shared, stable, objective basis for understanding what is true, moral, and real—we are left only with competing demands for power and competing attempts to control the facts.”
― How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises
― How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises
“Lenin’s vision of labor camps as a special form of punishment for a particular sort of bourgeois “enemy” sat well with his other beliefs about crime and criminals. On the one hand, the first Soviet leader felt ambivalent about the jailing and punishment of traditional criminals—thieves, pickpockets, murderers—whom he perceived as potential allies.”
― Gulag: A History
― Gulag: A History
“The secret of the Climate Miracle is nature controls the climate. Human emissions do not overpower the natural forces that drive an ever-changing climate.”
― Climate Miracle: There is no climate crisis Nature controls climate
― Climate Miracle: There is no climate crisis Nature controls climate
“those strains that can imagine women’s “empowerment” only in traditionally male terms of physical strength, career success, and work in scientific professions centered on things rather than the professions centered on people that women all over the world prefer. The antifeminine cohort recoil at such Mary-Shelleyan qualities as “submission, love, tenderness, self-sacrifice, devotement, sympathy.”
― The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus
― The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus
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