29 quotes
Romance requires trust—and the deeper the trust, the deeper the possibility for romance.
Beyond Order (2021)
Although Christ commits many acts that might be considered revolutionary, as we discussed in Rule I, He is nonetheless explicitly portrayed in the Gospels as the master of tradition.
Beyond Order (2021)
Like God, however, ideology is dead. The bloody excesses of the twentieth century killed it.
Beyond Order (2021)
It is far better to become something than to remain anything but become nothing.
Beyond Order (2021)
To write something long, sophisticated, and coherent means, at least in part, to become more complex, articulate, and deeper in personality.
Beyond Order (2021)
If you aim at nothing, you become plagued by everything.
Beyond Order (2021)
There is a high goal, a mountain peak, a star that shines in the darkness, beckoning above the horizon. Its mere existence gives you hope—and that is the meaning without which you cannot live.
Beyond Order (2021)
It was the bringing together of a warring multiplicity under the unifying doctrines of Christianity that civilized Europe.
Beyond Order (2021)
There are three fundamental states of social being: tyranny (you do what I want), slavery (I do what you want), or negotiation.
Beyond Order (2021)
That is the nature of our ancestors: immensely courageous hunters, defenders, shepherds, voyagers, inventors, warriors, and founders of cities and states. That is the father you could rescue; the ancestor you could become.
Beyond Order (2021)
You do not choose what interests you. It chooses you.
Beyond Order (2021)
Much that is great starts small, ignorant, and useless. […] But today’s beginner is tomorrow’s master.
Beyond Order (2021)
Learn from the past. Or repeat its horrors, in imagination, endlessly.
Beyond Order (2021)
I think it is reasonable to posit that it is often the people who have had too easy a time—who have been pampered and elevated falsely in their self-esteem—who adopt the role of victim and the mien of resentment.
Beyond Order (2021)
Grief must be a reflection of love. It is perhaps the ultimate proof of love. Grief is an uncontrollable manifestation of your belief that the lost person’s existence, limited and flawed as it might have been, was worthwhile, despite the limitations and flaws even of life itself.
Beyond Order (2021)
I have camped where the grizzly bears were plentiful. It is nice that they are on the planet and all that, but I prefer my grizzlies shy, not too hungry, and far enough away to be picturesque.
Beyond Order (2021)
Those who break the rules ethically are those who have mastered them first and disciplined themselves to understand the necessity of those rules, and break them in keeping with the spirit rather than the letter of the law.
Beyond Order (2021)
As it is said, “Man shall not live by bread alone” (Matthew 4:4). That is exactly right. We live by beauty. We live by literature. We live by art.
Beyond Order (2021)
That ghostly figure, the ideal union of what is best in both personalities, should be constantly regarded as the ruler of the marriage—and, indeed, as something as close to divine as might be practically approached by fallible individuals.
Beyond Order (2021)
The world is a very strange place, and there are times when the metaphorical or narrative description characteristic of culture and the material representation so integral to science appear to touch, when everything comes together—when life and art reflect each other equally.
Beyond Order (2021)