“..most extraordinary of all is perhaps the claim to set up this abnormal civilization as the very type of all civilization, to regard it as Civilization with a capital letter, and even as the only one which deserves the name…” – Rene Guenon, in East and West
Quotes
Quotes of the day for 12, January 2009
“90% of Communication is just presentation. You should think that over, why speak in the first place if no one can understand you. You are communicating for a listener, for them, not for yourself. So you should make sure they at least understand. This is why academics cannot easily affect any significant direct change in […]
Thoughtful Quotes of the day, 12/22/2009
Quotes I found thought provoking “Every fear is an unconfronted weakness.” – Kurt Saxon in the essay “Survival and the Paranoid” 1977 “Intellectual understanding in the strict sense is found at the highest pinnacle of human selfhood, what the philosophers call the “actual intellect.” When such understanding leaves the realm of pure intelligence and descends […]
Quote of the day, Friday 4, Dec. 2009
“…In utilitarian societies, where what most people consider to be good for themselves is the rule of law, there are two vectors of control: institutions and economies. Both reward producing results that people want to consume in exchange for money, and now that we’ve got many different groups with enough people in them to be […]