On the True Appreciation of Art
He who refuses to destroy a bad book kills reason itself.
“We must therefore combine right and might, and to that end make right into might or might into right.”
– Blaise Pascal
“God is my first love’s duty,
To whose eternal Name
Be praise for all thy beauty,
Thy grandeur and thy fame;
But ever have I reckoned
Thine, native flag, my second.”
– Fr. Charles Constantine Pise, S.J.,
“The American Flag”
“Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.”
– Psalm 126:1
“An indomitable pride incessantly leads them to overthrow everything they have not made; and to create anew they separate themselves from the principle of all existence.” – Joseph de Maistre
“Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.”
– Jeremias 10:14
“There is no disorder that ETERNAL LOVE does not turn against the principle of evil.” – Joseph de Maistre
“I have insisted upon being strong, but I have laboured to be generous.”
– Benito Mussolini
“It is a book that is historically valuable, giving us, as it does, intimate pictures of Fascism in theory and practice.” – From the Editor
“Liberalism is a system, as Catholicism is, though in a contrary sense. It has its arts, its science, its literature, its economics, its ethics; that is, it has an organism all its own, animated by its own spirit and distinguishable by its own physiognomy.” – Fr. Salvany