Devout Luddite

“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

“No se te ha alistado para el descanso, sino para el combate. La vida presente es una lucha, una guerra continua, una vigilancia incesante.” San Juan Crisóstomo

“Theology without prayer is like a body without a soul.” - St. Dumitru Stăniloae

Theodore Roosevelt read every single day Even on his wedding day Even while exploring the Amazon Even the day he charged up San Juan Hill He read 20,000 books in his lifetime "I am part of everything I have read"

"Truth is not a territory to be defended, but a good to be shared." - Magnifica humanitas, 25

"Human hearts are turning to steel. The availability of so many comforts has made cultivating a conscience in people so difficult." — St. Paisios the Athonite

Illuminated manuscript page by Florence Aseult. The Passion of Christ, hand-painted on goat parchment using traditional medieval techniques. Lapis blue, crimson, 23-carat gold, and vivid floral pigments.