Devout Luddite

"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news." — John Muir

"Un homme sans prière est un animal sans l'usage de la raison". Saint Philippe Néri

São Tomás de Aquino ensinou que o bem tem uma propriedade que o mal não tem: o bem se difunde. a pessoa justa torna o ambiente mais justo. a pessoa paciente acalma a sala inteira. a mãe que não grita ensina sem saber que está ensinando. o pai que cumpre a palavra forma através do exemplo. o bem que você pratica em silêncio chega em lugares que você nunca vai ver. e em pessoas que talvez você nunca chegue a conhecer.

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.” ― Socrates

"Never lose hope in God’s mercy." - St. Benedict

Civilization is drowning in mediocrity and starving for Beauty. It is one of the things which reminds a civilization that life is worth living. Cathedrals, poetry, music, sculpture, architecture, gardens, great stories are civilizational necessities. A society which stops striving for beauty eventually forgets what it is striving for at all. beyondthecosmicveil.substack.com

“They said that I should lose my ideals & begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.” G.K. Chesterton

“La lectura santa alimenta el alma, la instruye, la prepara para la vida eterna y la conduce a los gozos celestiales.” San Isidoro de Sevilla

"Therefore my first recommendation is that you endeavour to be grateful to our Lord God... Show your gratitude to Him by leading a saintly, exemplary, and honest life” Lorenzo the Magnificent, Letter to Giovanni de' Medici, March 1492

“A complete man must be an artist, a warrior, and a philosopher.” -Benvenuto Cellini

“It was pride that changed angels into demons; it is humility that makes men as angels." St. Augustine

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.” G.K. Chesterton

🚨 THIS IS THE ENTIRE AI INDUSTRY'S NIGHTMARE IN ONE QUOTE. An author suing OpenAI says AI companies didn't just buy books. They allegedly downloaded them from pirate sites. Then, according to his claim, stripped away copyright pages and ISBN information before feeding the material into AI models.

Teddy Roosevelts custom engraved Smith & Wesson Model No. 3

Le bureau de Rudyard Kipling dans sa maison de campagne.

"It was pride that changed angels into devils." -St. Augustine

This is a quote from John Hunyadi, who spent his life fighting Muslims, and it captures how Europeans feel today: "We have had enough of our men enslaved, our women raped, wagons loaded with severed heads of our people, the sale of chained captives, the mockery of our religion... [W]e shall not stop until we succeed in expelling the enemy from Europe."

I deeply appreciate many books, but when reading some of them I can’t help but notice you have to be careful who you recommend them to. Here are 4 books I recommend without hesitation to anyone: St. Augustine’s Confessions G.K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove If you’re looking for a book, maybe you read?

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." - St. Paul the Apostle

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” — Francis Bacon