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"I suppose you're right," Socrates said. "Of course I'm right," the priestess Diotima said. (Symp. 206e)
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Macrobius in particular is so gratifying to read simply because he realised this
"Virgil is the greatest philosopher of ancient Rome" (T.S. Eliot).
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Wagner is to the modern West what Homer was to his Greeks, Vergil to his Empire
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‘according to the ancient story (ὥσπερ καὶ ὁ παλαιὸς λόγος), there is a god who holds in his hands the beginning and end and middle of all things, and straight he marches in the cycle of nature (εὐθείᾳ περαίνει κατὰ φύσιν περιπορευόμενος).’ (Plato, Laws 715e-716a)
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I have found it. The best line in all Greek literature.
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'So I think, Hippias, that I have been benefited by conversation with both of you; for I think I now know the meaning of the proverb “beautiful things are difficult.” (χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά)' (Hippias Major, 304e)
define ‘beautiful’
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This is why we strive to end where in fact we began (and never left): in wordless prostration before the ineffable.
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To treat God in the first instance as an object(!) whose separative existence(!) is open to doubt is already to have fallen. This is a fall that can not be remedied by dialectic, because it is what gave birth to dialectic to begin with.
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All this noise to avoid the slightest moment of introspection. Why do you think nobody bothered with "arguments for God"-- except at best as a perfunctory exercise--until very recently?
Annual Ranking of Arguments for God S Swinburne-style Cumulative Case A Arg. from Holiness Arg. from Beauty B Rasmussem/Pruss Contingency Causal Finisim Kalam C A-Priori Fine-Tuning Consciousness F Craig Kalam Moral Argument Miracles Religious Experience Thomistic Args
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"Ah but *my* subscription to perfectly average beliefs almost impressively conformable to my social peer group is backed by rigorous argumentation", he will tell you with supreme satisfaction.
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Analytic philosophers really spend decades studying to ultimately wind up with a worldview almost entirely indistinguishable from a high street bank clerk's. Truly remarkable commitment.
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'Indeed, if any formula could ever sum up the intellectual development of a period of years, then the years from around 530 to around 450, in Greece, might be brought under the formula 'the detachment of the soul from the body.'' (Hussey, The Presocratics, p. 76)
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The origin of Tradition 'is polar, and as far as we know the pole is no more Western than it is Eastern' (René Guénon, Voile d'Isis Oct. 1929)
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Available 07/07/2026 The Loeb Classical Library is going places.
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Review of Eliade's Myth of the Eternal Return in Études Traditionnelles, December 1949
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'These are things about which we ourselves have often spoken; Eliade has brought together numerous examples referring to the most diverse traditions which show quite well the universality, and, we could say, the 'normality' of these ideas.' (René Guénon; Review)
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Handling any book published even 30 years ago feels like a distinct pleasure. The paper quality, binding quality, typesetting is just way worse now everywhere
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Despite living in what is in every quantifiable sense the most wealthy and technically developed time in history, the quality of our publishing— in other words, our attitude to literature— is undoubtedly at its worst.
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Now that geography is forcibly public knowledge I want only to make one exclamation: England is truly the most beautiful country on earth. It is the ideal environment for Man, perfectly moulded to his needs and sensibilitiesl, and adapted to his flourishing
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'And the only reason I've come to China is to transmit the instantaneous teaching of the Mahayana: 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘩𝘢.' (Bodhidharma, Bloodstream Sermon; trans. Pine)
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People finger-physiognomy dox far too confidently on this website, especially when sharing books. I can and will judge you by your hands.
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