“Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.” MenReasonChristModernMankindLonelinessCryPridePureIntellectualConscienceTraditionEmptyClaimsPrejudiceIntuitionVanitySatanWildernessLive ByArrogantTemptedDeprivedWisestModern ManWitheredExpanseWasteland Book:The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.” MenMeanDoeScienceNatureLosesNaturalSecretFindingsPerfectionCuriosityAppearanceWisestWisest Man Book:Essays and Lectures Source: Essays and Lectures
“The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.” MenFameWisestReluctant Author:Tacitus