"The sunsets and sunrises of civilization are inevitably separated by intervals of isolated darkness. The night that followed the Roman sunset was long and uncertain, and the turmoil it brought consumed countless men. But mankind itself did not yield. With its gaze fixed on a distant future, it persevered. Until the first rays of a new dawn at long last penetrated the horizon." Arnold Joseph Toynbee
"An intellectual golden age produces sages. An intellectual dark age produces fools. An intellectual dark age that fancies itself golden produces intellectuals." —Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
"The myth sovereign in old age was that everything means everything. The myth sovereign in the news is that nothing means anything." —Thomas Howard, Chance or the Dance? A Critique of Modern Secularism
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