“This, then, is the aim of the statesman: to weave together the characters of the gentle and the brave... And having perfected the most glorious and best of all textures... he holds them together by this fabric... and rules and watches over them.”
-Plato from Statesman
"Wherever at the head of some new undertaking you see the government in France, or a man of rank in England, in the United States you will be sure to find an association... I met with several kinds of associations in America of which I confess I had no previous notion; and I have often admired the extreme skill with which the inhabitants of the United States succeed in proposing a common object for the exertions of a great many men and in inducing them voluntarily to pursue it...
Feelings and opinions are recruited, the heart is enlarged, and the human mind is developed only by the reciprocal influence of men upon one another. I have shown that these influences are almost null in democratic countries; they must therefore be artificially created, and this can only be accomplished by associations."
“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit
the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world
that no longer exists.”
-Eric Hoffer
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow
belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
-Malcolm X
"Every ideology based upon a false anthropology ceases. Because it's based upon a lie."
-Patrick Deneen
"Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence."
-Jordan Peterson
"Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being 'in love', which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
-Louis de Bernières from Captain Corelli's Mandolin
"All good ideas become false when you take them to their extreme, and we've taken individualism to the extreme."
-David Brooks
@49:25
The Trinity Forum - Evening conversation with David Brooks and Patrick Deneen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFHUvquu7RA
" High levels of indebtedness cost you your freedom." -John Anderson, Australian politician and podcaster
