Old Dog Diogenes

“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

“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

“An infinitely greedy sovereign is afoot in the universe, staking his claims.”
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“Art moves us because it is beautiful, and it is beautiful in part because it means something. It can be meaningful without being beautiful; but to be beautiful it must be meaningful.”
― Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction