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Top 25 Anthony Esolen Quotes (2024 Update)

Anthony Esolen Quote: “Virtue liberates; vice enslaves. A passion for genuine beauty liberates;.”

1. “Virtue liberates; vice enslaves. A passion for genuine beauty liberates;.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “If you had to choose between art and the slogan, or between history and the slogan, you might as well choose the slogan and have done with pretending even to care about art and history. The reduction of all things to politics must reduce them, in their own right, to irrelevance.”

2. “If you had to choose between art and the slogan, or between history and the slogan, you might as well choose the slogan and have done with pretending even to care about art and history. The reduction of all things to politics must reduce them, in their own right, to irrelevance.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “Virtue humanizes and spiritualizes what is part animal in us. Vice brutalizes what is human and spiritual in us.”

3. “Virtue humanizes and spiritualizes what is part animal in us. Vice brutalizes what is human and spiritual in us.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “Where there is faith, there is liberty. The heavens are open, and man’s life has an aim, transcending his corporeal makeup, the particularities of his culture, and the monetary exchanges he must make along the road. Where there is no faith, human choices, in all their mad variety, reel back into the dark woods, or into the inextricable error of the labyrinth. But the labyrinth is intolerable. We must be going somewhere.”

4. “Where there is faith, there is liberty. The heavens are open, and man’s life has an aim, transcending his corporeal makeup, the particularities of his culture, and the monetary exchanges he must make along the road. Where there is no faith, human choices, in all their mad variety, reel back into the dark woods, or into the inextricable error of the labyrinth. But the labyrinth is intolerable. We must be going somewhere.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “It is a mark of a narcissistic age that some Christians have come to interpret these words as suggesting that we make Jesus present by means of our community, when exactly the reverse is the case. The only reason why Christians gather is that Jesus has already united us. We gather not in our names but in His name. It is He who has called us out of the darkness of egoism into His wonderful light.”

5. “It is a mark of a narcissistic age that some Christians have come to interpret these words as suggesting that we make Jesus present by means of our community, when exactly the reverse is the case. The only reason why Christians gather is that Jesus has already united us. We gather not in our names but in His name. It is He who has called us out of the darkness of egoism into His wonderful light.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “On three great bonds of love do all cultures depend: the love between man and woman in marriage; the love between a mother and her child; and the camaraderie among men, a bond that used to be strong enough to move mountains. The first two have suffered greatly; the third has almost ceased to exist.”

6. “On three great bonds of love do all cultures depend: the love between man and woman in marriage; the love between a mother and her child; and the camaraderie among men, a bond that used to be strong enough to move mountains. The first two have suffered greatly; the third has almost ceased to exist.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “Our motto instead is, “Work – or do anything at all, so long as you do not pray, or even come to an awareness of your frailty.” Turn up the noise.”

7. “Our motto instead is, “Work – or do anything at all, so long as you do not pray, or even come to an awareness of your frailty.” Turn up the noise.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “There’s all the difference in the world between teaching a human being and sanding the gears in a machine. The machine does a job. The human being embarks on a quest. The machine hums a dreary, constant drone. The human being sings. One.”

8. “There’s all the difference in the world between teaching a human being and sanding the gears in a machine. The machine does a job. The human being embarks on a quest. The machine hums a dreary, constant drone. The human being sings. One.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “Millions of women rose up, said G. K. Chesterton, to declare that they would no longer be dictated to, and promptly became stenographers.”

9. “Millions of women rose up, said G. K. Chesterton, to declare that they would no longer be dictated to, and promptly became stenographers.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “What can chastity or purity even mean, once you have smiled at sodomy?”

10. “What can chastity or purity even mean, once you have smiled at sodomy?”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.”

11. “For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “Nearly all the school subjects lay great stress on information. But literature makes its appeal to the heart as well as the intellect. Geography.”

12. “Nearly all the school subjects lay great stress on information. But literature makes its appeal to the heart as well as the intellect. Geography.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “Art reveals to us the mysteries of our existence, or perhaps reveals to us for the first time that there are mysteries at all.”

13. “Art reveals to us the mysteries of our existence, or perhaps reveals to us for the first time that there are mysteries at all.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “The music of the poem lends meaning to the words, and the meaning of the words lends music to the poem.”

14. “The music of the poem lends meaning to the words, and the meaning of the words lends music to the poem.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “Tolerance is that important but subordinate virtue by which, instructed in our own weakness, we bear with what is bad without pretending that it is good. We bear with it provisionally, even if sometimes there is nothing we can do about it or ever will be able to do about it. It.”

15. “Tolerance is that important but subordinate virtue by which, instructed in our own weakness, we bear with what is bad without pretending that it is good. We bear with it provisionally, even if sometimes there is nothing we can do about it or ever will be able to do about it. It.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “We sense that the human body is a precious thing, worthy of our reverence. It is not a tool, not an object of consumption like a steak or a keg of beer, not an animate provider of pleasure. It is the outward expression of a profound mystery, that of another human being.”

16. “We sense that the human body is a precious thing, worthy of our reverence. It is not a tool, not an object of consumption like a steak or a keg of beer, not an animate provider of pleasure. It is the outward expression of a profound mystery, that of another human being.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “It is precisely because we believe in democracy as a talisman, a heal-all, that we are prone to the disintegration of language that characterizes Life Under Compulsion. It.”

17. “It is precisely because we believe in democracy as a talisman, a heal-all, that we are prone to the disintegration of language that characterizes Life Under Compulsion. It.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “Words fail us. They are like keys: they open, but they also shut. When we were small and could hardly raise ourselves from the floor, we curled our fingers around the fingers of mother and father, and we looked into their faces as they looked into ours. Where is the word for that?”

18. “Words fail us. They are like keys: they open, but they also shut. When we were small and could hardly raise ourselves from the floor, we curled our fingers around the fingers of mother and father, and we looked into their faces as they looked into ours. Where is the word for that?”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “These days we have no true childhood, only a diseased precocity, introducing children to things that any decent man of Whittier’s day, or of Armstrong’s, would have considered unutterably vile. Therefore we have no true adulthood either, only a prolonged infantility, a curdled adolescence followed by old age and death.”

19. “These days we have no true childhood, only a diseased precocity, introducing children to things that any decent man of Whittier’s day, or of Armstrong’s, would have considered unutterably vile. Therefore we have no true adulthood either, only a prolonged infantility, a curdled adolescence followed by old age and death.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “To put the matter bluntly, no sense at all can be made of the virtue of purity if sodomy is countenanced or even celebrated. That is because the virtue is founded in reality, and the vice depends upon denying the reality.”

20. “To put the matter bluntly, no sense at all can be made of the virtue of purity if sodomy is countenanced or even celebrated. That is because the virtue is founded in reality, and the vice depends upon denying the reality.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “In a pit of mud, everyone looks like everyone else. It is the clean who are distinct. In a mob, everyone behaves like everyone else. It is the friend who is distinct.”

21. “In a pit of mud, everyone looks like everyone else. It is the clean who are distinct. In a mob, everyone behaves like everyone else. It is the friend who is distinct.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “After years of watching the comic face of nihilism, your children will come to respect nothing, love nothing, believe in nothing, and long for nothing.”

22. “After years of watching the comic face of nihilism, your children will come to respect nothing, love nothing, believe in nothing, and long for nothing.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.”

23. “We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “Our freedom is a personal freedom only when, in it and through it, our persons may flourish, but that is so only in love.”

24. “Our freedom is a personal freedom only when, in it and through it, our persons may flourish, but that is so only in love.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “The value of the old liberal education was not that it made men “well-rounded,” like a ball bearing, but that it gave them the freedom of the height and breadth and depth of human experience, including man’s mysterious encounter with his Creator. To.”

25. “The value of the old liberal education was not that it made men “well-rounded,” like a ball bearing, but that it gave them the freedom of the height and breadth and depth of human experience, including man’s mysterious encounter with his Creator. To.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “The only reason why mankind has celebrated marriages is that they renew the race; they bring forth new life, within the bounds of a holy vow.”

26. “The only reason why mankind has celebrated marriages is that they renew the race; they bring forth new life, within the bounds of a holy vow.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.”

27. “For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “How decisive for the Christian educator, or for any educator of good will, is the revelation that man is made in the image and likeness of the three-Personed God? That is like asking what difference it will make to us if we keep in mind that a human being is made not for the processing of data, but for wisdom; not for the utilitarian satisfaction of appetite, but for love; not for the domination of nature, but for participation in it; not for the autonomy of an isolated self, but for communion.”

28. “How decisive for the Christian educator, or for any educator of good will, is the revelation that man is made in the image and likeness of the three-Personed God? That is like asking what difference it will make to us if we keep in mind that a human being is made not for the processing of data, but for wisdom; not for the utilitarian satisfaction of appetite, but for love; not for the domination of nature, but for participation in it; not for the autonomy of an isolated self, but for communion.”

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Anthony Esolen Quote: “Where there is no faith, human choices, in all their mad variety, reel back into the dark woods, or into the inextricable error of the labyrinth. But the labyrinth is intolerable. We must be going somewhere.”

29. “Where there is no faith, human choices, in all their mad variety, reel back into the dark woods, or into the inextricable error of the labyrinth. But the labyrinth is intolerable. We must be going somewhere.”

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