Monica

“People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of their religious faith.”
― Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

“In particular, I want to focus on the moral and judgmental credentials of intellectuals to tell mankind how to conduct itself. How did they run their own lives? With what degree of rectitude did they behave to family, friends and associates? Were they just in their sexual and financial dealings? Did they tell, and write, the truth? And how have their own systems stood up to the test of time and praxis?”
― Paul Johnson, Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

“The upward spiral was checked from the mid-1980s and reversed around 1990. For the last couple of decades, the G7 share has been torqueing downward at a mighty pace. Today it is back to the level that it first attained at the very beginning of the nineteen century.”
― Richard Baldwin, The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization

“Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy.”
― Oscar Wilde, Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde