'Beauty is a crystallization of some aspect of universal joy; it is something limitless expressed by means of a limit.
Beauty is a reflection of Divine bliss, and since God is Truth, the reflection of His bliss will be that mixture of happiness and truth which is to be found in all beauty.' - Frithjof Schuon, Sainte Chapelle, Paris, 13th century

“The man who makes a vow makes an appointment with himself at some distant time or place. The danger of it is that himself should not keep the appointment. And in modern times the terror of one self, of weakness and mutability of oneself, has perilously increased, and is the real basis of the objection to the vows of any kind... Everywhere there is a persistent and insane attempt to obtain pleasure without paying for it. Thus, in politics, the modern Jingoes practically say: ‘Let us have The pleasures of the conquerors without the pain of the soldiers: Let us sit on sofas and be a hearty race.” Thus, in religion and morals, the decadent mystics say: ‘Let us have the fragrance of sacred purity without the sorrows of self-restraint; let us sing hymns alternatively to the Virgin and Priapus.’ Yes, in love, a free-lover says: ‘Let us have the splendor of offering ourselves without the peril of committing ourselves; let us see whether one cannot commit suicide an unlimited number of times.”

~G.K. Chesterton

"After centuries of "enslavement", the woman wanted to become free and exist for herself. Feminism, however, was unable to give women any other personality than that which they can give to the mere imitation of men. Thus her claims are nothing but a mask for a thorough mistrust of the new woman towards herself: i.e. for her inability to be and to be considered what she is; as a woman and not as a man. Feminism is based on the premise that the woman as such has no value, that she can only be valid insofar as she becomes as much a man as possible and claims the same prerogatives of the man. Feminism is therefore a symptom of degeneration in the strictest sense of the word."

~Julius Evola

"Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men."

~Francis Parker Yockey

"Whatever may be the meaning of faith, it must always mean a certainty about something we cannot prove."

~G.K. Chesterton

“A man’s faith consists not in the many things he is in doubt of, and tries to believe, but in the few he is assured of, and has no need of effort for believing.”

~Thomas Carlyle

“To protect and serve their own interests, the wealthy and privileged have used feminists and pacifists to promote a masculinity that has nothing to do with being good at being a man, and everything to do with being what they consider a “good man.” Their version of a good man is isolated from his peers, emotional, effectively impotent, easy to manage, and tactically inept.”

~Jack Donovan, The Way of Men

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

~Plato

"Beauty is an ultimate value– something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given. Beauty should be therefore compared to truth and goodness, one member of a trio of ultimate values, which justify our rational inclinations."

~Sir Roger Scruton

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."

~C.S. Lewis

"Never has there been such an age of false teachers as this pitiful twentieth century, so rich in material gadgets and so poor in mind and soul. Every conceivable opinion, even the most absurd, even those hitherto rejected by the universal consent of all civilized people - now has its platform and its own 'teacher'."

+Fr. Seraphim Rose

“The hardest task before most of us is not to learn, but to unlearn. Many of God’s own children have drunk so deeply of the sweetened poison of Satan, that it is by no means easy to get it out of their systems; and while it remains in them, it stupefies their understanding.”

~A.W. Pink

“Liberty is traditional and conservative; it remembers its legends and its heroes. But tyranny is always young and seemingly innocent, and asks us to forget the past.”

~G.K. Chesterton

"Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself. Life has no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume."

~Erich Fromm

“If Christianity goes, the whole of our culture goes. Then you must start painfully again, and you cannot put on a new culture ready made. You must first wait for the grass to grow to feed the sheep to give the wool out of which your new coat will be made. You must pass through many centuries of barbarism. We should not live to see the new culture, nor would our great-great-great-grandchildren: and if we did, not one of us would be happy in it.”

~T.S. Eliot

“The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time; so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization and save the World from suicide.”

~T.S. Eliot

“Universal debauchery, together with the most abundant material progress which engendered it, will be the sign of the end of the age and the approaching terrible judgment of Christ.”

+St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, 1807-1867

"We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil."

~J.R.R. Tolkien

“Divorce takes all authority from the father, all dignity from the mother, all security from the child, and transforms domestic society into a struggle between strength and weakness; it constitutes the family as a temporary lease, where the inconstancy of the human heart stipulates its passions, and which ends where new passions begin.”

~Louis de Bonald

"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions... Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead bad in his own and others’ eyes, so that he won’t hear reproaches, curses, but will receive praise and honors."

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago