Beyond Order

Quotes

• “Modern people have a hard time understanding what sacrifice means, because they think, for example, of a burnt offering ...”
• “You do not choose what interests you. It chooses you. Something manifests itself out of the darkness as compelling, as w...”
• “Do you believe that man and woman were once together, as a single being, were then separated, and must be restored as a ...”
• “Beauty leads you back to what you have lost. Beauty reminds you of what remains forever immune to cynicism. Beauty becko...”
• “No matter how beautiful the natural world, we should remember that it is always conspiring to starve, sicken, and kill u...”
• “We have been telling [young people] for decades to demand what they are owed by society. We have been implying that the ...”
• “The unknown shines through the productions of great artists in partially articulated form. The awe-inspiring ineffable b...”
• “Well, you do not hope for the infinite perfectibility of humanity and aim your system at some unattainable utopia. You t...”
• “Maybe you have an hour and a half, or an hour, because life is too hectic. It would not be too bad an idea to have a sho...”
• “Who dares wins-if he does not perish. {Quoting the motto of the British Special Air Service.} And who wins also makes hi...”
• “Buy a piece of art. Find one that speaks to you and make the purchase. If it is a genuine artistic production, it will i...”
• “It has taken since time immemorial for us to organize ourselves, biologically and socially, into the functional hierarch...”
• “Grief must be a reflection of love. It is perhaps the ultimate proof of love. Grief is an uncontrollable manifestation o...”
• “I exposed myself to a larger number of paintings, I like to think, than anyone else in history. For at least four years,...”
• “If you, as speaker, are positioned properly on stage, physically and spiritually, then everybody's attention will be foc...”
• “This is the most profound of mysteries. What is that potential that confronts us? And what constitutes our strange abili...”
• “That ghostly figure, the ideal union of what is best in both personalities, should be constantly regarded as the ruler o...”
• “Those who break the rules ethically are those who have mastered them first and disciplined themselves to understand the ...”
• “That is the nature of our ancestors: immensely courageous hunters, defenders, shepherds, voyagers, inventors, warriors, ...”
• “I have camped where the grizzly bears were plentiful. It is nice that they are on the planet and all that, but I prefer ...”
• “Although Christ commits many acts that might be considered revolutionary, as we discussed in Rule I, He is nonetheless e...”
• “To write something long, sophisticated, and coherent means, at least in part, to become more complex, articulate, and de...”
• “There are three fundamental states of social being: tyranny (you do what I want), slavery (I do what you want), or negot...”
• “It was the bringing together of a warring multiplicity under the unifying doctrines of Christianity that civilized Europ...”
• “Much that is great starts small, ignorant, and useless. […] But today's beginner is tomorrow's master.”
• “Like God, however, ideology is dead. The bloody excesses of the twentieth century killed it.”
• “It is far better to become something than to remain anything but become nothing.”
• “Art bears the same relationship to society that the dream bears to mental life.”
• “Your life is, after all, mostly composed of what is repeated routinely.”
• “Learn from the past. Or repeat its horrors, in imagination, endlessly.”
• “If you aim at nothing, you become plagued by everything.”
• “Do not foolishly confuse "nice" with "good.”