Traditional Quotes and Symbols: The consciously conservative man stands alone amongst manifest drunks, is alone awake amongst sleep-walkers who take their dreams for reality.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: Only very few can imagine how much happiness and inward peace a social order that is stratified according to natural vocations and spiritual functions can bring, not only to the ruling, but also to the laboring classes.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: Since the fall of almost all traditional forms, the consciously conservative man stands as it were in a vacuum. He stands alone in a world which, in its all opaque enslavement, boasts of being free, and in all its crushing uniformity, boasts of being rich
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: If the social forms are in conformity with man’s highest goal and correspond to man’s deepest needs, why shouldn’t they be as good as, or better than, anything novel that the passage of time may bring forth?
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: The higher must include the lower, the knower must include the known, the universal must include the individual, and the free the less free.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: One of the fundamental conditions of happiness is to know that everything one does has an eternal meaning; but who at the present time can still conceive of a civilization in which all its vital aspects are developed “in the likeness of Heaven”?