Old Dog Diogenes

“But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.”
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“Modern man, instead of attempting to raise himself to truth, seeks to drag truth down to his own level.”
― René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World

“It is easy to be a madman: it is easy to be a heretic. It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one’s own.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“For my own part I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that “nothing happens” when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation: Saint Athanasius