“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
“It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews have never produced a true poet. Heinrich Heine reached the point where he duped himself into a poet, and was rewarded by his versified lies being set to music by our own composers. He was the conscience of Judaism, just as Judaism is the evil conscience of our modern civilization.” LyingEvilModernPoetPersonalityCivilizationConscienceJewComposerJudaismInvoluntaryModern Civilization Author:Richard Wagner
“perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.” SocialResultsResponsibilityKnownBeautyModernDutyConscienceCravingCivicsCivic Responsibility Book:The Bent Twig Source: The Bent Twig
“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another...” PeopleShouldFirstsAsksHistoryModernConscienceComplainingOccasionsObscurityModern Poetry Author:W. H. Auden
“A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination. He firmly believed in the significance of reviving the Arab spirit and protecting the freedom of thought and the freedom of human conscience.” MenHumansBeautifulSpiritModernConscienceSignificancePersistentDistinguishedIlluminationEloquencePioneersFreedom Of Thought Author:Mikhail Naimy