Words of wisdom

[ElmerMudd]

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change

 

[Votto]

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change

Yet Biden's approval rating is still below 40%.

Funny that.

 

[Missourian]

You know what? You're right...

 

[SassyIrishLass]

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change

Dumb

 

[Captain Caveman]

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change

If you do what you've always done, you will get what you've always got

 

[Skull]

If common life is to be lived nobly and well ... it must be by common people exerting themselves as strenuously for some form of ideal excellence as they would for a great career; it must be by multitudes of common people living lives of greatness in obscurity without thought of applause or reward, but solely for the sake of the life itself, knowing it to be worth all it costs.

Lucien Price, in Another Athens Shall Arise

 

[Skull]

Do not seek for truth in any place except in the faculty which cognizes truth which is your inmost self, for it alone can cognize truth.
It is the active brain-mind, filled with thoughts of the day, filled with desires of the hour, filled with the prejudices and opinions which are so transitory — and which more than anything else this active brain-mind is afflicted with — which prevent your visioning of the truth, prevent your obtaining the vision sublime.

G. de Purucker, Golden Precepts

 

[Skull]

All the aspects of any civilization arise out of a people’s religion: its politics, its economics, its arts, its sciences, even its simple crafts are the by-products of religious insights and a religious cult. For until human beings are tied together by some common faith, and share certain moral principles, they prey upon one another. In the common worship of the cult, a community forms. At the heart of every culture is a body of ethics, of distinctions between good and evil; and in the beginning, at least, those distinctions are founded upon the authority of revealed religion. Not until a people have come to share religious belief are they able to work together satisfactorily, or even to make sense of the world in which they find themselves. Thus all order—even the ideological order of modern totalist states, professing atheism—could not have come into existence, had it not grown out of general belief in truths that are perceived by the moral imagination.

From: The Essential Russell Kirk, p. 52