Joseph Crampton

“You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

“The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils

“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.”
― Russell Kirk, The Politics of Prudence

“God created Man in His image," says the Scripture: "and," adds Heine, "Man made haste to return the compliment.”
― Arthur Quiller-Couch, Poetry