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“Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

“Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.”
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“Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

“It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that "revolution must necessarily begin with atheism." That is absolutely true. But the world had never before known a godlessness as organized, militarized, and tenaciously malevolent as that practiced by Marxism. Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin, and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic pretensions. Militant atheism is not merely incidental or marginal to Communist policy; it is not a side effect, but the central pivot.”
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“We appreciate beautiful things not for their utility only, but also for what they are in themselves—or more plausibly, for how they appear in themselves.”
― Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
― Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more

For readers of the Traditional School including such authors as Rene Guenon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, Mar ...more

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