Guillermo I. Hinojosa

Student, Psychology and Philosophy enthusiast. Lover of the True, the Beautiful and the Good.

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

Yes and no. On language and history, sure, but it has also rejected its religious tradition and accepted North American-style social liberalism with an enthusiasm that is unique.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created…”

Sir Roger Scruton

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they are evil. Whereas I have no problem getting on with leftwing people, because I simply believe that they are mistaken.”

Sir Roger Scruton

[Joseph 🕊️ @CaudilloXIV]

Imagine being this retarded

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

"I think conservatism is not about ideology, it’s about love. We have something, this country and its institutions and our way of being, and that’s what we’re holding on to. We don’t know why, but it’s all that we’ve been given, so why not?"

Sir Roger Scruton

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred [...]. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.”

—Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, Bk IV

[Edmund @Kulambq]

Eternal gratitude to you, maestro. You let us hear the voice of God.

[Anthony Koch @Anthony__Koch]

Actual working class people are rarely swept up by “eat the rich” style rhetoric etc.

Its primary audience is the downwardly mobile children of upper-middle class parents.

[Guillermo I. Hinojosa @GuillermoIngua3]

@Vivianolala Estos dragones te están quedando increíbles!

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

People say there’s no magic in books but the fact that you can string words together to create a series of visions in someone else’s brain is still our greatest achievement as a species.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. It is easier to wage a battle against distant abstractions than to fight the quiet war inside one’s own soul. Yet this is the only war that ever mattered.”

— Leo Tolstoy

[����𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

A Fresh Take on a Bach Classic

Toccata and Fugue in D minor is famously known for its powerful organ sound. But in this solo flute version by Helena Schulthess, the piece takes on a completely different character.

Instead of grand and dramatic, it becomes intimate and haunting. Since the flute can only play one note at a time, Schulthess uses breath, phrasing, and tone to suggest the layered complexity of the original.

This reinterpretation highlights something remarkable about Johann Sebastian Bach: even when reduced to a single melodic line, his music remains powerful, expressive, and timeless. 🎶

[BSF 🇬🇧🐀 @BSF42069]

We’ve come a long way

[Edmund @Kulambq]

If you have not yet listened to JS Bach's St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion, now would be an especially fitting moment to do so. In truth, there is never a wrong time for such an encounter, for these works stand outside the contingencies of mood and season. And yet, there are occasions when their gravity, their solemn beauty, and their invitation to reflection are quietly necessary.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

— Charles Dickens

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

“We laugh at honour, and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”

—C.S. Lewis

[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

"The countryside is not a slice of untilled nature. It is a human institution built over centuries in the image of the people who made it."

— Sir Roger Scruton