Hilarion Quotes

#1. Silver hidden in the gold,
Young man hidden in the old,
Laughing lord with weeping eyes,
Bring king and ring before sunrise!
-Hilarion, The Great and Terrible Quest

Margaret Lovett

#2. A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

Sigmund Freud

#4. Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is
so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.

Mark Rippetoe

#6. Fashion is never wrong.

Malcolm McLaren

#7. St. Francis was in some ways a fundamentalist, but he was fundamentalist about those passages that asked a lot of himself and his "form of life," whereas most reformers (and preachers) are fundamentalist about passages that ask a lot of

Hilarion Kistner O.F.M.

#8. Any time gone by was better.

Jorge Manrique

#9. Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

Fanny Fern

#10. I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

R. Lee Ermey

#11. There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.

Ken Ham

#12. By 2010, we as a species were creating more data per day than we did from the beginning of time until 2003. By 2015, 76 exabytes of data will travel across the Internet every year.

Bruce Schneier