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[I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!]
"Aesthetic interest does not stem from our passing desires: it reveals what we are and what we value. Taste, like style, is the man himself." — Roger Scruton, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture, 1998
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"The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences.
The presumption that civilization, progress, and improvement emanate from the operation of some mythical factors—in the Marxian philosophy, the material productive forces—shaping the minds of men in such a way that certain ideas are successively produced contemporaneously in them, is an absurd fable." —Ludwig Von Mises, Theory and History, 1957 "Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us."
--Descartes "Being that reason belongs to everyone but good judgment to only a few, man is prone to every kind of illusion." --Schopenhauer “Let us not be deceived! Time marches forward; we’d like to believe that everything in it marches forward, that the development is also one that moves forward. The most level-headed are led astray by this illusion … ‘Mankind’ does not advance; it does not even exist. The overall aspect is that of a tremendous experimental laboratory in which a few successes are scored, scattered throughout all ages, while there are untold failures, and all order, logic, union, and obligingness are lacking.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche, circa 1885 "There are certain things in which mediocrity is unbearable: poetry, music, painting, and public speaking."
— Jean de la Bruyère, circa 1690 |
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