“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
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“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
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“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
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