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"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." – General Patton

Unveiling of the Column of Victory at Berlin, Germany, 1873 Engraving
"I was with them, and yet I was alone."
– Albert Camus
Two striking images of cathedrals:
one of man, one of nature
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
– Eleanor Roosevelt
"Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"Nature is honest, there is no meanness in her composition, she has no time for fools, there is no place in her code for weaklings and degenerates. Out of her strength we gather our own strength. And it is good to be strong, to be able to endure, not as a brute beast, but as a thinking man imbued with the spirit of a great ideal."

Francis S. Smythe
Finally, we all arise from seed celestial,
Because the same sky overhead is
father of us all...
And that which was sent down to earth
from heaven's aethereal shore
Is taken up again into the quarters of the sky.

– Lucretius
The Nature of Things, Book II: 991 - 1001
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Napoleon in front of Charlemagne‘s throne in Aachen

IMPERIUM EUROPA EST PATRIA NOSTRA
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“Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I'm unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a physical bond for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.”

— James Dean
"Some girls are full of heartache and poetry, and those are the kind of girls that try to save wolves instead of running away from them."
– Nikita Gill

Art: Ivan and the Gray Wolf by Stepan Gilev
Forwarded from MusingsOfHulda
Sarah Katharine Smith- Book illustration
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Under Ceres’ Sacred Tree by Francisco Pradilla Ortiz
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"A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.”

— Pythagoras
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In the Battle of the Trees, faeries wage war against northern Wales.
The faeries' army includes many monsters, such as a huge black toad with a hundred claws, a gigantic monster with a hundred heads, and a speckled serpent whose back contains a hundred tortured souls.

The bard Taliesin supposedly witnessed it, and one of the poems of "The Book of Taliesin" describes the battle.

Images from Alan Lee's illustrations of the Mabinogion.
Forwarded from Celtic Folk and Culture
Right now I'm re-reading the Mabinogion. The classic book of the Welsh Gods and Goddess. It never ceases to amaze and inspire me. I can't reccomend it enough.
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"...the soul always sees perfection in the person who is superior to it..."

Ibn Khaldun (1978)
Forwarded from IMPERIVM
PARACELSUS IN EXCELSIS

"Being no longer human, why should I
Pretend humanity or don the frail attire?
Men have I known and men, but never one
Was grown so free an essence, or become
So simply element as what I am.
The mist goes from the mirror and I see.
Behold! the world of forms is swept beneath-
Turmoil grown visible beneath our peace,
And we that are grown formless, rise above-
Fluids intangible that have been men,
We seem as statues round whose high-risen base
Some overflowing river is run mad,
In us alone the element of calm."

~Ezra Pound


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