Jack Rafferty

“Nobody who is alert to beauty, therefore, is without the concept of redemption—of a final transcendence of mortal disorder into a ‘kingdom of ends’. In an age of declining faith art bears enduring witness to the spiritual hunger and immortal longings of our species. Hence aesthetic education matters more today than at any previous period in history.”
― Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
― Zen Shin

“Man seldom looks above his own height after adolescence.”
― T.H. White, The Book of Merlyn

“Other things being equal, the more widely dispersed key technologies are, the more widely dispersed power will be, and the smaller the optimum scale of government.”
― James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age