Quote of the Week: J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to his Son Concerning Women, Courtship and Romance
“You may meet in life (as in literature) women who are flighty, or even plain wanton — I don’t refer to mere flirtatiousness, the sparring…
Human Condition
Quote of the Week: Gérard Zwang, “La Fonction Érotique”
“The human condition is lived only as a man or woman. From the moment of fertilization, the die is cast. Some people prate about the bisexualism of every human being. Such a…
Quote of the Week: Thomas Molnar, “The Counter-Revolution”
“The ideological energy this doctrine was able to generate was immense, it was Christian energy redirected towards purely secular and utopian ends. First of all,…
Quote of the Week: Mircea Eliade, “The Portugal Journal”
“My lack of interest for sociology, Marxism, and so forth is owing to the statement often made that these disciplines give you the illusion of…
Quote of the Week: Ezra Pound, “An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the United States”
“Man has been reduced not even to a digestive tube, but to a bag of money that gradually is losing its value. This cycle has…
Quote of the Week: Eric Voegelin, “The Political Religions”
“When the heart is sensitive and the mind is perceptive, one look at the world will suffice to see the misery of the human creature…
Quote of the Week: Till Kinzel, Introduction, “Scholia to an Implicit Text”
“Man is an animal that cannot find restfulness in this life, since he cannot just live in a state of self-oblivion within the passing of…
Quote of the Week: Cory Bernardi, “The Conservative Revolution”
“Indeed, there is no model conservative due to the inherently variable nature of the human condition and the particular traditions that it creates. This will…
Quote of the Week: John C. Calhoun, “A Disquisition on Government”
“If man had been differently constituted in either particular ;– if, instead of being social in his nature, he had been created without sympathy for…
The Great Man of History and the Fallacy of Equality
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? [Where is the Great Man?] (1 Corinthians…