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“It is the glory of man’s spirit that in the midst of misery and confusion and revolt, art lifts its head, not to deny the evil but to share it; and not alone to report the misery, nor yet to denounce or escape it, but to transfigure it.”
—W.E. Hocking
“Every man who has ever been young at all has felt, if only for a moment, this ultimate and poetic paradox. He knows that loving the world is the same thing as fighting the world.” —G.K. Chesterton
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"For the purpose of moving the indifferent, giving light to the blind and drawing unbelievers, the Lord waits to send His Angel with the flaming sword to dispel the diabolical armies that invade the world. They blind men and destroy peace: the peace of the Church, the peace of the nations, the peace of families in homes, the peace of conscience in souls."
—Lúcia of Fátima
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@Cernovich Amen.
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”
—T. E. Lawrence
"No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark." —Frank Capra
This life’s dim windows of the soul
Distort the heavens from pole to pole
And lead you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.
—William Blake
“Beauty is an ultimate value—something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given. Beauty should ... be compared to truth and goodness, one member of a trio of ultimate values which justify our rational inclinations.” —R. Scruton
“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.” —St. Augustine