"The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion"

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Source : René Guénon (2001). “The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times”, p.279, Sophia Perennis

Rene Guenon

#Inspirational Quotes #World Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.”
“The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them.”
“The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.”
“If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.”
“Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class - and so tenaciously withheld from the working women - brought them misery? Rather, has it not promoted greater happiness, greater freedom, greater prosperity and more harmony among them? The women who have this knowledge are the women who have been free to develop, free to enjoy in its best sense, and free to advance the interests of the community.”
“Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.”
“Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.”
“My government will respect the will of the people.”

Source : "Kenya's leader accepts defeat in constitution vote / Proposed charter would have widened powers of president" by Emily Wax, www.denverpost.com. November 23, 2005.

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