There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local.
~ Murray Rothbard
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Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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You can draw the blinds in a brothel, but people still know what you’re doing.
~ Iain Banks
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By reimagining college-admissions criteria, James Conant hoped to spark a social and cultural revolution. The age of the Well-Bred Man was vanishing. The age of the Cognitive Elite was here.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Three Silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
― Walter Benjamin
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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