Tika

“The general public long ago stopped looking for beauty in high culture. But it still has TV and the movies....you are far more likely to find genuinely mesmerising images and real beauty in big-budget Hollywood movies -- think of, say, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar or his Dark Knight Trilogy -- than in any European art-house”
― Sohrab Ahmari, The New Philistines

“This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.”
― Denis de Rougemont, Love in the Western World

“The more a man is given to sentiment ,the more likely is he to be wordy and to speak well.”
― Denis de Rougemont, Love in the Western World

“Reason and
truth themselves that are in question?

Socrates never visited these terrifying heights and depths; they are distinctively modern and post-Christian. Socrates was a simple virgin; Christians are like married women (married to God), and modernists are like divorcees.”
― Peter Kreeft