Love is the beauty of the soul. - Saint Augustine

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

- Augustine

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

- Augustine

'Once you label me, you negate me.'

- Søren Kierkegaard

The crowd is untruth. - Kierkegaard

Digital techniques like morphing and sampling destroy our faith in the honesty of the images and sounds we see and hear. The verisimilitude is still there — but we can no longer trust our eyes and ears.

- Monaco

'The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living

'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

'Traditions are the wisdom of the race; they are the only sure instruments of moral instruction.'

Russell Kirk

'The mass of mankind, Burke implies, reason hardly at all, in the higher sense, nor ever can: deprived of folk-wisdom and folk-law, which are prejudice and prescription, they can do no more than cheer the demagogue, enrich the charlatan, and submit to the despot.' - Russell Kirk

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

'If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.'

Above all do not forget to love yourself.

- Kierkegaard

Under the terms of the Peace of Augsburg, each Prince could now decide whether Luthernanism or Catholicism was to prevail in his land. This principle was stated in latin 'cuius regio, eius religio'. Calvinism was forbidden.

'A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.' Niccolo Machiavelli

The Fernsehtrum (TV Tower), in central Berlin, Germany, was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany. It was intended to be both a broadcasting facility and a symbol of Communist power.

'The joy of globalization was the presumption that it made all of this possible; that it created a world that came to you as you were, not forcing the compromises of departure.' - Kiran Desai

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

Russell Kirk

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”

- Bertrand Russell