“One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature.” MenWorldHumansMadeRealSufferingGrowingWonderfulAtheismHuman NatureRegretIntellectualFellowsAtheistConvictionInsightJailShallowNo RegretsReal HumanWonderful World Author:John C. Wright
“A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.” MenChallengesCryEmptyThrownConfrontationDefianceStatureCivilisedWastelandGauntletEmpty Places Book:The Hermetic Millennia Source: The Hermetic Millennia
“Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these things must be built, and we must craft them with the materials at hand, and make as strong and stubborn redoubt as we can make, lest the horrors of the Night should triumph over us, not in some distant age to come, but now.” MenShouldSoulHandsAgeNightStrongCitiesMaterialsCivilizationHorrorBuiltCraftsTriumphHouseholdStubbornCrooked Author:John C. Wright