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Joseph Pearce
5 quotes
“was, or should be, a key to the treasures of mystical experience, a means of expressing through sub-creation man's unity with the primary Creation of which he is part. It could also, in its highest form, be an expression of the homesickness of the soul in spiritual exile, a longing for that eternal realm for which the soul begins to ache.”
Joseph Pearce (born 1961) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile, 2011, Chapter 13 (explaining Solzhenitsyn's viewpoint)
“Today, after the Soviet Union's demise, and after the statues of Stalin have been ignominiously toppled, it is easy to forget the sheer enormity of Solzhenitsyn's achievement. Quite simply, what he did was considered to be impossible. It was beyond belief that one man could defy the communist state and survive. It was even more unbelievable that he should not only survive, but that he should play a significant role in the state's downfall and that he should outlive the state itself. Solzhenitsyn's life and example flew in the face of the "reality" of the "realists".”
Joseph Pearce (born 1961) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile, 2011, Chapter 24
“Solzhenitsyn has re-written George Orwell's novel, using the facts of his life as his pen. He represents the victory of Winston Smith. Truth, it seems, is not only stranger than fiction; it has a happier ending.”
Joseph Pearce (born 1961) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile, 2011, Chapter 24 (final paragraph of book)
“Whether it's conscious or subconscious, intentional or unintentional, a work of art always embodies and incarnates in some sense the deepest-held beliefs of an author. Therefore, an author's theology and philosophy, in the context of the times in which the author lives, are clearly going to inform the work.”
Joseph Pearce (born 1961) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Writer Joseph Pearce on the case for Shakespeare's Catholicism", America (magazine), October 7, 2019
“The authentic presence of goodness is love and its manifestation in virtue; the authentic presence of truth is to be seen in the culture's conformity to reason, properly understood as an engagement with the objective reality beyond the confines of egocentric subjectivism; the authentic presence of the beautiful is a reverence for the beauty of Creation and creativity, properly perceived in the outpouring of gratitude which is the fruit of humility. A society informed and animated by such a culture is truly civilized. A civilized man is not animated by a desire to shape himself into an image of his "self," which is itself unknowable, but is willing to allow himself to be shaped into an image of the perfect Person beyond himself.”
Joseph Pearce (born 1961) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What Is Civilization?", The Imaginative Conservative (magazine), August 5, 2014