05 Friday Feb 2016
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“The social distinction that counts most in the present state of things is that based on wealth, that is to say on a purely outward superiority of an exclusively quantitative order”.
René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World
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07 Monday Dec 2015
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“Modifying the mental outlook of a people is the one and only means of bringing about any deep or lasting change”.
René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines
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15 Thursday Oct 2015
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“Let us consider things for a moment from the standpoint of those whose ideal is material ‘welfare’, and who therefore rejoice at all the improvements to life furnished by modern ‘progress’; are they quite sure they are not being duped? Is it true that, because they dispose of swifter means of communication and other things of the kind, and because of their more agitated and complicated manner of life, men are happier today than they were formerly? The very opposite seems to us to be true: disequilibrium cannot be a condition of real happiness. Moreover, the more needs he has, the greater the likelihood that he will lack something, and thereby be unhappy; modern civilization aims at creating more and more artificial needs, and as we have already said, it will always create more needs than it can satisfy, for once one has started on this path, it is very hard to stop…”
René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World
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27 Sunday Sep 2015
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“Modern industry can be said to represent from all points of view the triumph of quantity, because its operations do not demand any knowledge other than quantitative, and because the instruments of which it makes use, that is to say machines properly so called, are developed in such a way that qualitative considerations come in to the least possible extent, while the men who work them are themselves limited to activity of an entirely mechanical kind”.
René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
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16 Wednesday Sep 2015
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“The increase in the speed of events, as the end of the cycle draws near, can be compared to the acceleration that takes place in the fall of heavy bodies: the course of the development of the present humanity closely resembles the movement of a mobile body running down a slope and going faster as it approaches the bottom”.
René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
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03 Thursday Sep 2015
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“The modern West cannot tolerate that people should prefer to work less and be content to live on little; as it is only quantity that counts, and as everything that escapes the senses is held to be non-existent, it is taken for granted that anyone who is not in a state of agitation and who does not produce much in a material way must be ‘lazy’”.
René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World
29 Saturday Aug 2015
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“Modern civilization suffers from a lack of principles, and it suffers from it in every domain. By a monstrous anomaly, it is, alone, among the others, a civilization without principles, or with only negative ones, which amounts to the same thing. It is as if an organism with its head cut off went on living a life that was at the same time intense and disordered…”
René Guénon, East and West
21 Friday Aug 2015
Posted in civilization, democracy
“The great ability of those who are in control in the modern world lies in making the people believe that they are governing themselves”.
René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World
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04 Tuesday Aug 2015
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“The general features, then, of characteristically modern thought are these: complete absence of metaphysical knowledge, negation of all knowledge that is not scientific, and arbitrary limitation of scientific knowledge itself to certain particular domains, excluding the rest. Such is the depth of intellectual degradation to which the West has sunk since it left those paths that the rest of mankind follows as a matter of course”.
René Guénon, East and West
10 Friday Jul 2015
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“To be fully at ease in a limited sphere, whatever it may be, one must be blind to the possibility of there being anything beyond”.
René Guénon, East and West
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