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Mihai’s Quotes

“[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.”
― Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

tags: creation, destiny, dominion, identity

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“Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.”
― Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

tags: depravity, optimism, realism, tragedy

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“The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.”
― Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

tags: arrogance, fallibility, hubris

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“Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.”
― Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

tags: discipline, piety, politeness, rectitude

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“It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.”
― Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

tags: assumptions, secularism, thoughts

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