Quotes Memorize Flashcards
Abraham Lincoln
Tags: Transgenderism, Reality
Hint: “How many…”
“How many legs does a dog have if you call it’s tale a leg? Four. Calling a tale a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
Aldous Huxley
Tags: Modernity, Technology, Escapism
Hint: “People will come to…”
“People will come to love their oppression. To adore the technologies that undue their capacity to think.”
Saint Augustine
Tags: Faith, Understanding
Hint: “Understanding is the reward…“Save
“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but seek to believe that you may understand. “
Saint John Bosco
Tags: Work, Life lessons, Holiness
Hint: “Your greatest enemy…”
“Your greatest enemy is idleness; fight it without let up.
Saint Josemaria Escriva
Tags: Boredom, Purpose, Escapism, Soul
Hint: “You’re bored?…”
“You’re bored? That’s because you keep your sense awake and your soul asleep.”
Viktor Frankl
Tags: Purpose, Meaning, Pleasure, Modernity,
Hint: “When a person…”
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
Ayn Rand
Tag: Communication, Truth, Evangelism, Pride
Hint: “The hardest thing…”
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
Ayn Rand
Tags: Communication, Opinions
Hint: “It is not advisable…”
“It is not advisable…to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.”
C.S. Lewis
Tags: Evangelism, Hope, Desires, Eschatology
Hint: “If I find…”
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
Cicero
Tags: Modernity, Tradition, History, Igorance, Wisdom
Hint: “To be ignorant…”
“To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.”
Bp. Fulton J. Sheen
Tags: Individualism, Pride, Spirituality
Hint: “There is a tremendous…”
“There is a tremendous egotism and conceit in those popular articles and lectures entitled ‘My Idea of Religion’ or ‘My Idea of God.’ An individual religion can be as misleading and uninformed as an individual astronomy or an individual mathematics.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
Tags: Love, Faith, Purpose, Epistemology
Hint: “The more you succeed…”
“The more you succeed in loving, the more you’ll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
Tags: Purpose, Meaning, Worship,
Hint: “So long as…”
“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.”
G.K. Chesterton
Tags: Catholicism, Pride, Modernity, Individualism, Humility
Hint: “A Catholic is…”
“A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.”
G.K. Chesterton
Tags: Responsibilities, Fear, Modernity
Hint: “Now most modern…”
“Now most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”
G.K. Chesterton
Tags: Abortion, Evangelism, Ethics, Philosophy, Modernity
Hint: “Moral issues…”
“Moral issues are always terribly complex for those without principles.”
G.K. Chesterton
Tags: Art, Philosophy
Hint: “The difference between…”
“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”
G.K. Chesterton
Tags: Identity, Evangelism
Hint: “Just going…”
“Just going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.”
G.K. Chesterton
Tags: Idolatry, Fear, Holiness, Corruption, Sin
Hint: “Idolatry is commited…”
“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.”
Herodotus
Tags: Suffering, Hopelessness
Hint: “The worst pain…”
“The worst pain a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.”
Julius Henry ‘Groucho’ Marx
Tags: Politics, Humour
Hint: “Politics is…”
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Tags: Philosophy, History, Ideas
Hint: “Men change ideas…”
“Men change ideas less than ideas change disguise. Through the course of the centuries the same voices are in dialogue.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Tags: Modernity, Sin, Freedom
Hint: “Modern man is…”
“Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Tags: Hierarchy, Equality, Hell, Politics, Authority
Hint: “Hierachies are…”
“Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Tags: Technology, Purpose, Modernity
Hint: “Technology does not…”
“Technology does not fulfill man’s perennial dreams, but craftily mimics them.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Tags: Mortality, Human Transience, Escapism, Eschatology, Evangelism
Hint: “Time should be…”
“Time should be feared less because it kills than because it unmasks.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Tags: Metaphysics, Transcendance, Apologetics, Evangelism
Hint: “Everything is…”
“Everything is trivial if the universe is not committed to a metaphysical adventure.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Tags: Politics, Conservatism, Philosophy, The State, Media
Hint: “Democratic doctrines…”
“Democratic doctrines invent the evils they denounce in order to justify the good they proclaim.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Tags: Productivity, Energy, Enthusiasm
Hint: “Nobody has so much…”
“Nobody has so much sentimental capital that he can afford to squander his enthusiasm.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Tags: Politics, Modernity, Pride, History, Utopianism
Hint: “The prejudices of…”
“The prejudices of other ages are incomprehensible to us when our own blind us.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Tags: Conservatism, Utopianism, Modernity, Wisdom, Tradition
Hint: “Civilization is…”
“Civilization is what old men manage to salvage from the onslaught of young idealists.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Tags: Self-realization, Thinking, Wisdom, Epistemology
Hint: “Thinking does not…”
“Thinking does not prepare one to live, nor does living prepare one to think.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Tags: Idolatry, Pride, Self-realization, Collective Unconscious, Modernity, Utopianism
Hint: “Man does not…”
“Man does not create his gods in his image and likeness, but rather conceives himself in the image and likeness of the gods in which he believes.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Tags: Wisdom, Pride, LGBTQ+, Modernity
Hint: “Wisdom comes down…”
“Wisdom comes down to not showing God how things should be done.”
Oscar Wilde
Tags: Self-realization, Human frailty, Absurdism, Humour
Hint: “Imagination was given…”
“Imagination was given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.”
Oscar Wilde
Tags: Identity, Creativity, Orginality, Ideology, Ochlocracy, Politics, Globalism, Boring people
Hint: “Most people are…”
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Voltaire
Tags: Ochlocracy, Politics, Cyber bullying, Responsibility
Hint: “No snowflake…”
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
