Chris

“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.”
― Spencer Klavan, How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises

“It is part of human nature to seek and apply an objective standard of the true and good. If we cut that part of our nature out, or deny it, we may gain godlike freedom (in the way Nietzsche understood it)—but it comes at the price of inhuman savagery.”
― Spencer Klavan, How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises

“Well . . . I spent the night once with a woman who was one of those—what do you call them?—congenital liars. Every single thing she told me about herself was untrue. And if I caught her in some contradiction or some obvious mistake, she would simply replace that untruth with another untruth. There was no bottom to it. It went on all night. Lies upon lies upon lies. And what I found was that, by the time morning came, a strange thing had happened to me.” “You began to believe her.” “Of course. I just began to accept whatever she said. Because I’m not insane. Only an insane person can live as if everything he hears is a lie.”
― Andrew Klavan, A Strange Habit of Mind

“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.”
― P.D. James