Joseph Crampton
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“Politics is the preoccupation of the quarter-educated,” George Gissing wrote near the end of the nineteenth century. To that aphorism we may add, near the end of the twentieth century, “Democracy is the preoccupation of the half-aware.” What our age desperately requires is not more mediocrity, but more elevation of spirit, awareness of the eternal source of truth. That failing, order and freedom and justice fall into ruin.”
― The Politics of Prudence
― The Politics of Prudence
“God created Man in His image," says the Scripture: "and," adds Heine, "Man made haste to return the compliment.”
― Poetry
― Poetry
“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
― The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)
― The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)
“The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal.”
― Eugenics and Other Evils
― Eugenics and Other Evils
“Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened.
"Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.”
― The Name of the Rose
"Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.”
― The Name of the Rose
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