Alexander Shepard→ "In seeking to substitute "philosophy"(rationality) for wisdom, a process which implied forgetting or ignoring the true part of the latter. It was in this way that there arose what may be described as "profane philosophy", in other words, a pretended wisdom that was purely human." (Ref: The Essential Guenon "The Dark Age" pg 9) 12-Dec-09   32 more by user | Throw | Link

Kryste Bedard→ It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. 12-Dec-09   Throw | Link

Facebook-gebruiker→ http://www.geophysics.geol.uoa.gr/frame_gr/histo/aristo_gr.html 11-Dec-09   Throw | Link

Facebook-gebruiker→ If I wish to travel by plane to New York, reason tells me that it is better to take a plane which is going to New York than one which is going to Constantinople. I suppose that those who think me unduly rational, consider that I ought to become so agitated at the airport as to jump into the first plane that I see, and when it lands me in Constantinople I ought to curse the people among them whom I find myself for being Turks and not Americans. This would be a fine, full-blooded way of behaving, and would, I suppose, meet with the commendation of my critics. (Ref: Human Society In Ethics and Politics) 11-Dec-09   48 more by user | Throw | Link

Josephine Tan→ 天降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤，空乏其身，行拂乱其所为，增益其所不能 。

...when Heaven is going to give a great responsibility to someone, it first makes his mind endure suffering. It makes his sinews and bones experience toil, and his body to suffer hunger. It inflicts him with poverty and knocks down everything he tries to build. In this way Heaven stimulates his mind, stabilizes his temper and develops his weak points. (Ref: Mencius 6B:15, Kao Tzu (part two) 吿子下) 11-Dec-09   72 more by user | Throw | Link

Josephine Tan→ Humanity (仁 ren) is the heart of man, and right (义 yi) is man’s path. How woeful it is when a man turns from his road and does not follow it, and lets his heart go without realizing he needs to find it. When people let their chickens and dogs roam away they know to go find them, but when their heart has wandered off it is different. The dao of learning is none other than this: it is a search for one’s lost heart. (Ref: Mencius, Book 1, 6A.11) 11-Dec-09   72 more by user | Throw | Link

Josephine Tan→ There is a dao that common people follow: if they have food enough to eat and clothes enough to wear, they sit in idleness and pursue no learning, little different from birds and beasts. Yao brooded over this as well, and he appointed Xie to be Minister of the People and teach them about proper human relationships – about affection between father and son, righteousness between ruler and minister, the proper divisions between husband and wife, the precedence of elder and younger, and the faithfulness of friends. Yao said, ‘Comfort their labor, draw them to come, straighten them upright, assist them with aid, make each gain the place proper to him, and then move them further through acts of virtue.’ (Ref: Mencius Book 1, 3A.4) 11-Dec-09   72 more by user | Throw | Link

Facebook-gebruiker→ Hay una cosa que se llama vivir y otra que se denomina existir; yo he elegido existir 10-Dec-09   23 more by user | Throw | Link

Facebook-gebruiker→ If you asked a modern anti-Semite why he dislikes Jews, he will tell you that they are unscrupulous and sharp in business and merciless to their debtors; he will tell you that they are always on the make, always intriguing, always supporting each other against Gentile competitors. If you say you have sometimes found similar characteristics among Christians, the anti-Semite will say: ‘Oh, of course I don’t deny there are ruffians who are not Jews. And I have some very good friends among Jews. But I am speaking of the average.’ If you question him when he is off his guard, you will find that whenever a Jew engages in a bit of sharp practice he says. ‘how like a Jew,’ but when a Gentile does likewise he says, ‘and, you know, the astonishing thing is that he is not a Jew.’ This is not a scientific method of arriving at averages. (Ref: New Hopes for a Changing World) 10-Dec-09   48 more by user | Throw | Link

Josephine Tan→ .... there are in the life of a human being many more truths which are simply believed than truths which are acquired by way of personal verification.... This means that the human being—the one who seeks the truth—is also the one who lives by belief. (Ref: Fides et Ratio, 1998, #31) 10-Dec-09   72 more by user | Throw | Link

Alexander Shepard→ "Humanists" were indeed concern to reduce everything to purely "human" proportions, to eliminate every principle of a higher order, and, one might say, symbolically turn away from the heavens under the pretext of conquering the earth; the Greeks, whose example they claim to follow never went so far in this direction, even at the time of their great intellectual decadence." (Ref: Essentialism pg 12.) 10-Dec-09   32 more by user | Throw | Link

Alexander Shepard→ "Have we not arrived at that terrible age, announced at the Sacred Books of India, "When the Castes shall be mingled, when even the family shall no longer exist?"? (Ref: The Essential Rene Guenon pg 13) 10-Dec-09   32 more by user | Throw | Link

Facebook-gebruiker→ The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, disguised as morality, restrains in their more spontaneous forms. War has the same merit. You must not kill your neighbour, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism. (Ref: New Hopes for a Changing World) 10-Dec-09   48 more by user | Throw | Link

Alexander Shepard→ "The more they(moderns who believe in the myth of progress) have sought to exploit matter, the more they have become its slaves, thus dooming themselves to ever increasing agitation without rule or objective, to a dispersion in pure multiplicity leading to final dissolution." (Ref: The Essential Rene Guenon. pg 15) 10-Dec-09   32 more by user | Throw | Link