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“This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.”

“Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built upon arithmetical statements, that I am rather inclined to regard that science as the instrument of national calamity.”

Political Economy Built Regard Instruments Guides Statements Calamity Arithmetic Political Economy

Book:A treatise on political economy

Source: A treatise on political economy

“A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.”

Men Prayer Known Divine Regard Calamity Chastisement

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.”

Source: Works: ¬The Rambler

“We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.”

World Existence Alive Dangerous Danger Adventure Towns Regard Experiments Encounters Judged Flags Schemes Assault Shrinks Calamity Traitor Dangerous Things Great Adventure

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.”

Thinking Humans Suffering Natural Fate Tragedy Regard Disaster Human Life Exception Dread Calamity Unnatural Abnormal

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged