Six Observations from a Habsburg Sympathizer
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn might have been the world's most fascinating man
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Kuehnelt-Leddihn
A collection of 10 issues
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Piety and Death
"It is difficult to fear death if one is very pious."
Alas, KL has made me take spiritual stock of myself again. I never used to fear
death, and then I had children. I then came to fear death . . . for their sake.
Of course. And
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The Robotic Soul
"There is little doubt that atheism, agnosticism, and the denial of the other
world are partially responsible for the rapid technological development which
gave us, apart from exquisite instruments for mass destruction, various means to
bridge time and space. . . Ortega y Gassets points out very adroitly
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Cash for Souls
"Facing the choice of cash or liberty human beings will always choose the former
because it spells safety."
How else can you explain the popularity of Social Security and Medicare? I give
up the liberty to dispose of my income (.765 7.65 cents of
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Authority
"Ochlocrats who never tire of accusing conservatives and Catholics of
superstition, illogical traditionalism, and 'unscientific' procedure make an act
of faith in the inner illumination of the individual and the infallibility of
numerical majorities."
I'm a firm believer that every man has an
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Medieval Man
"Medieval man (like every deeply religious man) was eschatologically static. To
him time was a relative conception because his center--God--stood at the same
distance to the year 1300 B.C. as to the year A.D. 1300."
The medieval man appeals to me, especially since I&
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Egalitarianism in the Hierarchy
"The nonchalantly polite but nevertheless free interclass manners in the
Catholic world are the natural consequence of a conventional (nonideological)
egalitarianism, based on the profound knowledge that our final status--on the
other side of the grave--will be basically different from our present one.
Furthermore, because
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The Reading Illiterate
"A reading-writing education as such has benefited nobody, has elated nobody
spiritually or culturally. There is no need to go to the other extreme and to
believe that the knowledge of the three R's is basically destructive, but
nothing is more stupid or unrealistic
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The Herdist and the Romantic
“Only the select can be closely confronted with the Absolute without taking
flight. Only the saints, but not the 'commonsensical' herd, can and will
surrender to the 'Holy Folly of the Cross.' For this reason we have such hatred
on the
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Body and Soul
"Bodies are mutually attracted by nearness, knowledge, and pleasure but souls by
distance, mystery, and suffering."
Such thinking could trend into Cartesian dualism, which undermines the
sacramental nature of existence, but it's always important to reassert that the
soul and body are not